Jon Rothstein
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140 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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I drove once, I remember, to Virginia. There was this big tournament down there, Boo Williams. And I drove, it was like seven hours each way. And I just went, I like made business cards at Kinko's and I just went and just networked and networked and networked. And, you know, I feel like, you know, when that is your backbone every single day, you owe it to yourself.
But most of all, you owe it to your bosses who continue to give you these great assignments to give everybody the best you can every single day. Now, I do want to, because I feel like we're close. share something personal with you. Two things personal. But I switched recently. I was kind of pressured. I had a little crisis.
And I don't know if you noticed this when we were texting earlier, but it was probably, I've had dreams, and I will admit this to you guys publicly, I've had dreams because of how much my life revolves around my phone and I need it like the machine rolling.
I've had dreams that I've been at a pool party and I jump and do like a cannonball and my phone's on me and it's like nightmares and I wake up and I'm like, I didn't do that. So a couple of weeks ago, you guys know I've been a droid guy my entire life. Like there's like twice a year, there's like something that happens where there's like an iOS upgrade and droid people can't text iPhones.
And like it was giving me a kind of hurrah. I started to schvitz. Like I didn't know what was going on. I couldn't communicate with people. And communication is so important. So my wife, you know, we have a child now who's 18 months, 18 months old. She couldn't get in touch with me. And you start to flip out. So one day, I just ripped the Band-Aid off, and now I'm Team Blue Bubbles.
So I'm adjusting to it. I'm adjusting to it. So that, I thought, was a life-altering experience. The day after I switched to an iPhone. It was either day or week after.
That's what I'm saying. So but then again, then get this. This is another thing that happened. So I and you guys know how sometimes like I'll tweet in the spring. It's like in April or May. Like, I hate you, pollen. Yeah, I've tweeted that in the past. Last year, I was having a bad deal with allergies. You know, I just said to myself, should I get allergy shots?
And I went and investigated with my local allergist. And they said, you can do 32 rounds of shots and you should be 80% immune. And I was like, I don't want to get back from the final four when everything's over and have to deal with allergies. I'm sick of dealing with allergies. So there's 32 rounds of shots to be done with it. So I get through 30 rounds of shots. Okay.
This is like maybe two weeks ago. I go for my 31st shot. I get it. I think, you know, you go to the gym, get your allergy shot, come home, do your podcast, whatever. I start having this weird reaction like I'm Jack Nicholson and something's got to give. I'm sitting on a stoop and I'm sweating. I go back to the doctor's office. I start throwing up.
They give me two shots of an EpiPen to calm me down. And I just remember like my life was flashing in front of my eyes. But I said, I remember I said to these people, it was crazy. I said, if I'm going to go, I'm not going before March.
I can't. I said, if you want to take me, take me on April 10th. Don't take me now.
Exactly.
Exactly, exactly.
Probably 10 to 15, especially when the TV's on and like you're just soaking everything in and you see close finishes, you see crazy upsets. I mean, it's a part of the fabric of college basketball. It's definitely a big part of my life. And the thing that's so humbling is like a takeaway I've gotten from that article and some of a very prominent media reporter reached out to me.
He's like, I'd like to do a feature on your wife. She sounds a lot more interesting than you do. I was like, yeah, I guess you don't care about the path, obviously, in the region of firepower. Yeah.
Okay, this is the region of toughness. Think about, guys, the coaches in the scowling that is involved in this region. Kelvin Sampson, Houston. Rick Barnes, Tennessee. Mick Cronin, UCLA. Brad Underwood at Illinois. This is a dynamite region. I've got Houston. I've got Gonzaga beating Georgia. I've got McNeese. coached by Will Wade, beating his alma mater, Clemson, in the 12-5.
Remember, Will Wade was a student manager at Clemson before he got into coaching. That's my 12-5. I got Purdue over High Point. I've got Illinois over the Texas Xavier winner, Kentucky, UCLA, and Tennessee. Then we're going bottom.
I got Houston against Purdue, and then I'm going to take Illinois against Tennessee in the Sweet 16, and I'm going to take Illinois against Houston in the Elite Eight, and I got Houston going on the Final Four. So I got Houston against Duke on one side. Houston comes out of the region to toughness.
On the other side, I've got Michigan State and Florida, and I've got Houston finally breaking through under Kelvin Sampson and winning the national championship. Kelvin Sampson, again, I've said it before, this is why Houston basketball's nickname is No Mercy. He reminds me a lot of the sensei and karate kid, John Kreese. You know, remember when he said, strike first, strike hard, no mercy, sir.
That's what Kelvin Sampson reminds me of. He's a much kinder man than Martin Koval as in the Karate Kid, but he has that same type of fierce kind of presence.
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