Bill Raftery
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
It's pretty much the same as the rest of the year. I get ignored. At 5 o'clock, my wife says, do you want to eat here or go out? And I always say, well, let's eat here. And she says, well, if we eat here, we have to go out and get some food. So we end up going out. So nothing's really changed, you know? Yeah, yeah. For me, it has, though. I mean, life goes on a little bit for everybody else.
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But pretty much like today was consumed with Zooms. We did a media day. Yesterday was internal stuff. So the last two days were more catch-up on stuff they want to do, marketing, media, things they've been working on kind of a deal, you know?
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
Other than that, it's look at tape. The unknown this week is I've got Big East games tomorrow night, and that's, you know, whoever wins tonight plays the winner tomorrow, that kind of a deal.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
And then Thursday, leave for Indiana. And we've got Big Ten on Saturday and semi-Saturday and final Sunday. And then Sunday night, after the teams find out, we find out where we're going. It's pretty much the same kind of a deal as every year.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
I think everybody has their own deal. It's just like you guys. You learn how to tee it up and what works for you and what's expedient. I guess the nice thing is with all the travel, even though you're not doing their games, you sort of catch up with other teams, you know, whether it's Auburn or Like we haven't had Duke this year at all, but certainly they catch your eye.
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You want to see how good they are, that type of thing. So you're more into the games you're going to be doing because they're immediate, and then you surface order the rest of them and start to catch up. Like next week we'll have eight teams to prep for starting Monday morning.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
And probably of the eight, I would guess I'll have had four of them. And the other four you start on right away on Monday morning, you know.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
I worked with a guy that's a genius and a pain in the neck. Got by the name of Ian Eagle. And the bird remembers everything. He'd be a terrible partner, you know, to be married to. He doesn't forget anything. He never gets over the past. And he claims we were doing an Orlando net game. It was one of those bad net years. uh, you know, like a 15, 18 and 35 deal.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
And Kevin Edwards made a jumper against the magic. And I, for the first time said onions. And he looked at me like, like, what, where did that come from? And basically that I never even thought of it, said it, but it was, uh, it was appropriate, you know, uh, for the moment. And the interesting thing about it, uh, I used it a couple more times, and ESPN said to me, we don't want you to use that.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
So I stopped using it, knowing that they were sending the checks, obviously. And then some writers started using it in their articles. And I got a call from ESPN. They said, you know what? You can use that again. So that's how that whole thing started. It's amazing, the transformation.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
It's a nice way of saying something that captures the moment when these kids just do uncanny things at so many important moments.
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Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, is there a feel? I think the first, once in a while I'll say early onions, but it's pretty much a big three late in the game that you could tell sealed the deal. Yep. But I think the one that people have gotten the biggest kick out of is Ronald Moore at Siena, where he made the three against Ohio State to go to overtime. So that was just a plain old.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
And then he made the three to win in overtime, and that became the double order. Yeah. Double order.
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Boy, you better get a life. My God.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
uh that's nice here of course mike's one of those special guys i remember doing a game with him back when he was doing maris basketball can you believe it okay that's how far back so uh what a career he's had as you well know just a class act too yeah yeah he is yes do you have uh do you have a favorite call that you've ever made uh the favorite call is when they put the lights on about two in the morning
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
It's called The Last Call and they double order it, you know?
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
You know, the NBA, Jason Kidd. I always said that what he did in the Meadowlands, if that was the garden, they'd have a statue in front of MSG for him. Every night, he did astounding things. Just an incredible feel for the game. You know, over the years, you know, doing the Nets and then CBS had the NBA years ago, as you guys well know.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
So you got to do a lot of NBA games and what they could do on a consistent basis, you know, just, you know, magic. Larry Bird. Just tremendous, tremendous talents. Julius in the early days, the 80s. I mean, it was... Nobody special, but just so many great players and so many great moments. And You know, college, they live for a lifetime for these kids.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
A lot of them, they're great college players. They don't get a chance to expose or shine on that next level. So it's fun to see them have their moment in the sun.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
I told this story recently. We were in Milwaukee, and it was the football championship Monday, college.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
And we had a Monday, big Monday. And Danny Gabbard, who runs the NCAA, basically now basketball tournament, and Dave's son, who's just a super guy too. But he and I got to the table late. So we had like six or eight of us. And Jay was in the throes of needing glasses, but not using them. So when I walked into Moe's restaurant, the owner was a good, the Vassala brothers, great guys.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
I gave the one boy, Jamie, my credit card. And so we sat down and, you know, we watched the ball game. Jay ordered the wine. And the check came, then I went behind to look at it, and he claims I almost had a heart attack because he added zeros and numbers in front of the zeros. He thought what was 150 was 450. Like, anyhow, it sort of destroyed my evening somewhat.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
But other than that setback, we had a lot of fun nights with McDonough and he over the years, but... Jay's a good friend, great spokesman really for the game that you don't have to agree with him and you don't argue with him because he's too smart to argue with. But he just has a great feel for what he thinks should be the right thing in the game.
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I guess it's called responsibility. If you want to play at night, you've got to manage the morning. You've got something else to do. I always say I've lost my game a little, but it's still ahead of a lot of people.
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Are you still making it all the way to last call? No. Not quite. Not quite. Not that I've become more responsible. I guess it's just that maybe lacking a little more stamina or just, you know, worried about the next event or getting to the next event. But, no, I've been really lucky with – Good genes, let's put it that way.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
It wasn't eight, but it was a couple, you know? I can remember one night, I think it was the San Antonio Net Championship Series. Unfortunately, I think it was 4-zip, as it was with the Lakers, too. But Jay Wright came up, and we went into the – They had a little after game place at the Meadowlands, and they closed quickly. A lot of those guys are other jobs and have to get up early.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
So anyhow, everybody was really upset, reluctant to leave. And I had the guy go outside and put about eight beers behind a bush right by the door. So anyhow, we went outside, and I said, well, good night. I said, well, we got a little nightcap. I said, the guy threw us out. I said, Jake, go over to Bush and grab a couple of beers.
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don't know about that usually they were part of the group i think more than anything you know yeah yeah it's uh it makes for good fodder basically but you know you try and always be under control uh but it's good company the one guy that's incredible uh you know over the years a lot of places closed in all these towns whenever i go to any city and i don't know where to go i call pj carlissimo oh
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
and pj knows the owner he knows the maitre d he knows the hostess he knows everybody and uh so he's a great source if you guys are traveling uh give pj a call he'll get you it's utterly incredible but between the nba and his college career he's been all over yeah how many restaurants do you think you have a picture of you up in Not as many as Sinatra. But you're up there, I feel like.
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A lot of places have changed over the years, though. They're going for some upbeat people versus those that are nearly deceased.
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Well, you know, for years it was P.J. Clarkson, New York. If you were in the city, they were always great to us. Post-game, you know, stay open. And it's still good, obviously. Moe's would be... Toscano and Brentwood. What's the other one I like there? The Ponies right by UCLA is a good one. Mostly Italian, you know, the Ivy and Santa Monica.
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I'll be in West Coast a little bit because two of our kids are there and we've been going there a lot more lately. But pretty much you get direction from the coach or somebody in the athletic department recommends a place, and you end up enjoying it on a consistent basis.
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La Perla down in Washington I like a lot. It's not a puppy, it's a – know fine dining place but that's one too we go to when we're in town there and ebbets ebbets grill is another one i don't know if you guys know that one that's a good one too yeah you got any places in chicago that's where we're at right now if i go uh i i just told this story recently years ago uh we were at harry carey's
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right and it was closing time we had all the nets radio and tv so we have about eight guys with producer director etc and it's harry carey behind the bar with ernie banks there's no it's closing time there's nobody there and i said uh harry would you sing take me out to the ball game And he looked at Ernie Banks and the two of them sang it.
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That was like one of the highlights for me of a lifetime. That those two famous and delightful guys singing that song was pretty good. That's incredible.
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Gibson's is another one. Yeah. Well, we went there consistently that we like to go to.
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I don't even have a Bill Raftery Day in my own house.
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Is there any financial commitment on my part on this or no?
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That's a deal. Okay. All right.
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We had started the Big East for two years, and I had said to Dave Gavitt, who was doing the color analysis, and as a commissioner, too, I said, you know, Dave, someday I might like to do that, never thinking I'm going to leave. And I thought I was going to be John Wooden, but I guess, you know, if you look at my record, I didn't quite achieve that. But, yeah.
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I guess I want to say October 28th of 81. We're in practice two weeks and Dave called and I made this up, but it's pretty typical of what may have happened. Dave called. He said, look, I've watched you coach. I think you should try television. I had two days to decide. I met with the team and I left for nine games, $800 a game with four children. So it was 7,200 bucks and it just went from there.
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ESPN was great. They gave me 25 games. NBC gave me three or four games at a little larger number. And I went with a bank for almost 20 years, believe it or not. I didn't hold the bank up, but They let me go any place I wanted to. We were basically the bank of the Giants, the Jets, the Meadowlands. The casinos were big then in Atlantic City.
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So we were involved there with the roadways, the highway authorities, all that stuff. So we were basically salesmen. And that gave me the opportunity. The next year, I started with the Nets full time. I started with CBS for the first time in 82, 83. And, you know, that was sort of the way, you know, I did that for years.
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some 20 odd odd years with the nets uh espn until 2 13 i left to go when fox started their fs1 big east coverage so i've been really lucky i mean you know not only you know, career-wise, but just amazing people, most of them considerably younger. And I think that's the big thing, too. You know, you guys are young. Young people have juice. And I think it's invigorating for a lot of people.
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I mean, we get together pregame, you know, the night before. These kids are all smart. They love what they're doing. You know, they're great team players. So I think all that sort of carries you and keeps you going.
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Yeah. i i think that's a lot to do with it and also i i don't get hung up they make the rules so why about them yeah yeah the game starts uh you may not like a jump ball uh you know change of possession arrow you may not like that but you know what people at home could care less i mean they they want to and the other thing too i You know, the referees, everybody has their angst over them.
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And I think you have to say things at times. But basically, sitting at home, you don't want to hear about every call lamenting this or that. But key calls, yes, I understand that part of it. But I just think the whole – you know, you come into a town and the thing is so important for two teams – Two communities, and we as a group of TV or radio have to match that. I think that's sort of the key.
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Like, that thing is as important to you as it is to both those universities and those kids. Yeah.
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That's nice of you. I just feel very fortunate, really. It's been a nice little ride, as they say. I think it keeps you young, keeps you invigorated. And the challenge of staying on top of it is not much of a challenge, really. I shouldn't even use that word. But You know, the biggest challenge is getting there, I always say. And you have to be ready when you get there.
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And the coaches button it up or the pregame practices button it up for you.
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Oh, yeah. That actually started, and I had no idea I was doing it. It was to get out of the play-by-play man's way. And, you know, so I would do it quickly, never thinking I was connecting, you know, the three words.
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And over the years, I'd be, like, I remember being at Newark Airport, and this guy is, like, a couple of feet away, and I hear him go, bit of it. And I'm going, geez, what a nitwit this guy is. And he says it a couple of times. I had no idea I was putting the three words together. But it was Mourning and Adam, the play-by-play guy. Then he identifies who's who and whatever.
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So I think everything starts for... You know, just maybe you form a habit, but it just starts because it's convenient or it fits or you want to be as succinct as possible.
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Yeah, that was... uh jimmy unbelievable when you think of it and what he did too for a career yeah who what we love to tease him it's uh but he's amazing it just is a relaxed way they just showed up and played and beat people and he kept getting great players yeah what what coach throughout the years have you become closest with or is like you know they're genuinely a friend now uh
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I would say a lot of guys you know really well and you're really comfortable with, but it's not like you're going to dine with them in the spring and summer. But it's surprising how close you can get and how open they can be about their other areas of life, whether it's a Bob Knight telling you something.
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or, you know, John Thompson telling you something that you know you would never use on the air. But, you know, you're comfortable making a phone call and checking in on them, you know, how they're doing when they retire. And I got, you know, we competed against John pre-Big East and all through to Big East. And I knew him, but almost 10 years of doing the NCAA tournament with him,
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We, you know, we had so much time together. It was probably the best time I ever spent with a coach. We really, we, we hit on things that you would never even think of discussing as a, you know, a coach TV person or radio person, but it was just natural flow of a conversation.
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You mean this particular season or over the years?
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Well... You know, I'm curious to see how Duke manages with all these young people. I know they're talented. It's just that, you know, Grant was talking about it this morning. It's just a different ball of wax, you know. Maybe the first game or two will be one thing, but how they react. I'm curious to see if the SEC –
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can get three teams in the Final Four, which would be match the, you know, the Big East in 85. Those are a couple of the things. I think the biggest thing is how kids become stars. Dante DiVincenzo comes to mind a few years back. He was really a good player. And what he did in that tournament escalated, I shouldn't escalate, elevated him to being a draft pick.
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And obviously now he's a terrific NBA player. I know he was nicked up recently, but, you know, he had a good run in New York and now Minnesota. Yeah. But that's the excitement, though. I think we're all of a sudden, you know, Dalton Connect is another one that the world got to see after his play at Tennessee. Of course, now he's with the Lakers.
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The big smooth, you know, the interesting thing about that play, that is a play they had practiced, and it really never got the acclaim that it should have, where Archie DiIacono drove at the guy on the right wing, and... Uh, Chris, we couldn't hear it, but he went arch, arch.
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And then this, I call it a slap back, you know, it's just a pass backwards, but the slap back and the presence of mind to know you could knock it down, the confidence to take it, obviously, but, uh, Those make your day. I mean, as a fan, you know, it's Keith Smart's jumper down in New Orleans, you know. I was on that angle.
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I thought he was behind the backboard when he took that jumper in the corner. And yet, as the years went on, I saw it. He had a perfect line, and then his momentum carried him behind the backboard. But those are special moments that, you know, they sort of live forever.
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Uh... Probably coaching-wise more than anything, you know, where you had a game won and you gave it away kind of a deal, you know. But let me hold it for one second. That was when my daughter called in. But not really. I think, you know, maybe some regrets, maybe some info you thought would have really resonated and you didn't get it in, or by the time you thought about it, it was too late.
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You know, the play had moved on, kind of. But I think I've been, you know, fortunate to work with some of the greatest play-by-play guys in the world. And, you know, they've all taught me something. And I think Vern taught me a lot about timing, Vern Lundquist, like without having a conversation.
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You know, like I always felt like if I have some information that I think would fit at a commercial, I might say something to Vern, and he would say, not yet, let's save that. You know, like his sense of timing was just – in fact, this is digressing for a moment. We have a Louisville game, and I think Butler – it doesn't matter, but I – Louisville's upset in this game, the NCAA game.
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And the ball went to the left and we're looking that way. And out of the right, I saw an object flying out of the stands and it ends up being a flask, but a plastic flask. So it slid across the floor. It was almost like God ordained it. It came to my feet, you know. So I go to commercial. I said, Vern, did you ever see that? What? What are you talking about?
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And I pick up the flask and I hand it to him. He opens it up, smells it, and he goes, maker's mark. It's not back on. What? we sent it. I forget the name. I should know to the head then of the committee for the NCAA. And thanks for the heavy security during the NCAA tournament. You really protected our butts. Yeah. Anyhow, that's digressing a little bit.
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No. I don't know how it started, but it was like a joke from Jim that got legs.
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He's never showed me. Okay. I'm not saying he didn't have it.
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My money would be on – it became a joke, I think.
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You got to ask him. I'm in his arena with this, but he's got a great sense of humor and he'll go with the flow kind of, you know?
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No, but we were the beneficiary of ties every tournament from Mitchells in Westport. Jim had them sent to us every year. So Iron Eagle doesn't send me squat, but Jim used to step up and get us those nice little ties.
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You know, do you feel that way on the air? We've done Duke games, you know, no question about his loyalty. But doing the Duke games, I think he goes sideways to try and, you know, just be as even toned as he can.
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Right. Generally speaking, if they dislike the guy, it means their team beat them on a regular basis, I think. Right. Or they got beaten in a recruiting deal. Or sometimes it's just personality that they don't care for, but...
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know they they you know they're fans so uh they get upset when things don't go their way frequently but uh you know it's funny to walk out of the building and the people will say great job you know you go they were at the game they didn't hear you but their team won so you did a great job yeah that's true that's a very good point everybody everybody means well i mean it's uh
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you know, wide open world out there that's made the college game special.
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No, we... We'll probably be in the air. We'll find out. I'm sure like with the iPad or something, we'll pick up something. But we they let the schools know or the public and the schools. And then that night they decide where we're going. You know, they have a meeting between Turner and CBS, all the execs.
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Over the years, it's like you can't go wrong. You're going to get one or two teams that are going to get to the semis or quarter, you know, lead aid. So it's like wherever they send you, it's going to – you do the same thing at every town you go to. You know, you're in the gym for eight teams. Yeah.
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You know, you have a meeting after to get ready for the next day, have a couple of pops, get up the next day and do the games and come back, sort of chat a little bit, have a couple of more pops and get ready for the next day, kind of, you know.
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You know, I don't know if they have everything, but the obvious chalk I would say would be Duke, Auburn, Alabama. A team that intrigues me is Florida.
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Very good. They intrigue me because they got size, speed, shooters. Guys, Golden's a hell of a coach. He did a great job in San Francisco. They're one. BYU intrigues me. Oh, yeah, they're good. Out of the blue. I do think that Houston might be ready. And the reason I say that, they actually have some guys shooting the ball decently.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
And I think that's big because you know they're going to show up and guard you and beat you on the glass. And they get extra attempts too, possessions, which is overlooked frequently, but they're phenomenal that way. But those are a couple. Yeah.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
I never even noticed that.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
Right. I never thought of it. Now you will. Now you will.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
I will. That's an intriguing inquiry. Yeah. I didn't mind searching for facts.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
No parade, no parade. Just a nice little get-together.
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Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
Well, thanks so much.