Colby Cohen

He's like Witt.

He's the guy that you're like, oh yeah, this is where you want your son to go play.

You want him to go play for a guy like Hasty because he's old school.

And he has like those good old school values that I think a lot of us probably kind of learned.

And some of those like old school coaches that even though they were tough, we liked, you know, they, they, he has that type of personality where you're like, fuck, this is going to be brutal, but like, this is what he wants me to do.

So like, I'm going to do it right.

That that's, that's like the Mike Hastings way.

I mean, guys, he took Minnesota state, a program that, you know, again, like biz, you probably would have, wouldn't have heard of Mankato.

He had those guys in a national championship game and they were smothering Denver through half of the game before Denver did their Denver and came back and beat them in the championship in Boston a couple of years back.

So he builds up that Mankato program, which he could have coached for life, probably just on his own terms.

He gets hired at Wisconsin, which is probably a tough place to get hired if you're not an alum.

He's a finalist for the job at BU when they were looking at him or Pando.

I'm sure you've heard that before, Whit, but I don't know how out there that is.

That's how highly he's thought of that a school like BU that has such a rich history and has so many good alums that could coach.

They were talking to Mike Hastings when they were talking to Pando and

Listen, they got that right.

Like, Pando's the guy.

I mean, like, you couldn't have a better guy there.

But so Hasty now has this in year three, this Wisconsin team, which they were top five a lot of the year.

They get into the tournament as a 13 seed.