Bill Kennedy
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Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Wait, that would be actually kind of cool. Okay. Yeah, I like that. If you can create a hamster wheel and have somebody run around in it, that would be kind of interesting.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
I don't know if you'd have to add the decapitated babies to that, Pablo.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Just want to redirect it, Pablo.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
So that would be amazing. The one thing we kind of forgot to mention is we have like five to seven seconds to pull this off. So if we could figure a way to get it done that quickly...
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Right. So what would then the doctor do?
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Wow, yeah, I mean, that's wonderfully deep, first of all.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah, no, very meaningful, very meaningful. And I think it's something that we could definitely explore. My only reservations, not on your end, because your idea was outstanding, would be our ability in a short amount of time to make sure we had the right head going out there because just of the chaos factor. My fear would be that we would not do it justice, Pablo.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
It's not that I don't have faith. I just don't want to put them in a bad situation, Pablo. I think we could put a group of them together, and they could be doing various old man things as old men. Oh.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
As old men, yeah.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Maybe, yeah.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah, let me give that one some thought. I do think that one has some merit though, Pablo.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
I love that idea. I think that is a very cool idea. Okay, great. You can give them some kind of puzzle that they got to think about.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
You will be written into the lore of the Curtain of Distraction, Pablo.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Go Devils.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah, that stuff, either you can flip it over and in, or we can use the tutu to cover it.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
What happens is they're in the back, they're ready to go. There's a door, as you can see, that they kind of come out with. We try and hide everybody until that very last second.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
He says... Does that stuff even work? I mean, yeah, sometimes you might see, like, something like that probably would work at times or not. We should do especially a study done on when they have the credit distraction, what the actual free-throw shooting percentage is. There should be a study on that. I'm sure there is.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Hey, did you find the hair? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's here.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Well, we didn't want to disappoint you, Pablo, so we were hoping we'd get a few more chances in that Houston game. You had given us three skits to do, and we wanted to make sure that all three got out there.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
We absolutely believed in these skits. We thought they were fantastic. So as soon as the game's over, I'm on my phone texting producer Matt, like, We're coming back for BYU. You guys in? He replies, all in.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
You're listening to DraftKings Network.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
You know, we're a family show. So, you know, we want to keep it we want to keep it appropriate, certainly. And we want to make it relevant to what is going on. So, you know, we took the very, very, very high road and we just you know, we want them to miss the shot. So that's what we put out there. Miss the shot.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah, so we'll get shot out of there. The point is trying to get shot first. Yeah. So H first, which will flip these two around.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
And we'll put them in the T-shirts. And we got the T-shirts over there. Yeah. Are they laid out by words? They're in order, yeah. Okay.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
It's funny. You know, some of our students after they're done, they'll list actually on their resumes that they were in the curtain of distraction. And it is absolutely a great conversation starter. They'll come back and tell me they asked about the curtain. They're like, oh, yeah, I've seen that before. And and it's you know, it's a great way to make that connection.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
So, you know, it has some real world benefits to some of these students.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
We appreciate it, Pablo. You've got an open invitation anytime you want to come out. And if we need ideas, we're going to hit you guys up for sure. And your vast network of individuals.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
We can clean it up and make it presentable.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
My all-time favorite characters, because they're one of the ones that we started with, are the unicorns. We have two unicorns that kind of make out. That's been an ongoing one for almost 12, 13 years, so that's kind of one of my all-time favorites just because of its longevity and its Hall of Fame nature.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, believe me, I have a ton of fun with this, Pablo.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Do you have a rough night? You have a rough night. And on those games, when you have really good games, you feel good at the end of it. So it's, you know, it's kind of like coaching, I guess.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
In its history, we're at about a 67% success rate of free throws being made against it. This year, I will be completely honest, we're struggling a little bit this year. We're a little bit over 70%.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
The funny thing is we've actually heard that some schools have actually practiced against the curtain. Effective or not, it's making them at least acknowledge it.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah, so typically what we'll do is we'll get together the week of a game or set of games to kind of see what's going on. And we'll look at what is trending. And so we start just pitching those ideas. And then we always say, as much fun as we have and all the kidding we do, obviously we never want to be offensive to somebody. We never want to do anything offensive.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
So there are definitely some skits that start to go down the wrong path that we have to bring back to the right direction or not use at all.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
We have often joked about, you know, different things like, hey, if it came down, like, win an NCAA championship. It's the last thing we ever do. We know if we do this skit, we're done. We are out of here. I probably won't have a job at the end of the day. But we will take the bullet for the team so that we can win that championship.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah, absolutely. You know, we had a series of skits kind of called Dogs Being Dogs. And so you can imagine maybe how dogs greet each other and things like that that would look really odd in the curtain and would not be appropriate in any way, shape, or form. But if we need that miss, might work.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
It has never performed the duty of a legitimate curtain.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
That's absolutely an honor.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Okay, that would definitely be in the category if we needed a miss, but we were going to shut it down immediately afterwards.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah, it's finally become the big time. It has grown up to an actual curtain. It's what it's always wanted to be.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Hey, tell Donald Glover he's got a ticket here. If he wants to be in the curtain, we're ready for him.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
You know, I think we might have to stay away from the toilet part of it, but if we can think of something else, that is great.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah, anything that doesn't involve a toilet problem.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
So we do two conjoined unicorns. We can put the unicorn masks on them.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
The Siamese triplet connected.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah, my name is Bill Kennedy. I'm an associate athletic director here at Arizona State University. I've been working full-time here for 37 years. I went to school here way back a long, long time ago. And anything else you'd like to know?
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
Yeah? You might want to skip that one, Pablo.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Behind the Curtain of Distraction: We Went Undercover with the Most Creative Fans in College Hoops
That would be amazing. Incredible.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Who is Defensive Player of the Year? + Pacers up to speed?
After reviewing the play, the defensive foul that was called on number 23 has been overturned. Unfortunately, the foul is now on number nine, and the Lakers will retain possession of the ball on the side. The coach's challenge is successful.
The Athletic NBA Daily
Who is Defensive Player of the Year? + Pacers up to speed?
It makes sense when you hear the name. It's like, oh, yes, obviously.