Richard Deitz

And that's an improvement there.

I think the Raftery-Gran Hill-Ion Eagle team has actually worked.

I'm a big fan of Andrew Catalan and Steve Lapis.

I think that's a great team.

They call a really good game.

So to me, the tournament has been well done.

You're always going to have people who don't love...

Um, studio talent, like I've seen online, like there's been some criticism of Nate Burleson.

He doesn't really bother me, um, that much.

I get the fact that there are hardcore college basketball fans who don't want the NBA guys there.

And they think it sort of cheapens the sport, but you have to remember, this is ultimately in the day, this is a television show, you know, and like these guys pay a lot of money.

And if you pay a lot of money, you're going to have Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley and, and your, you know, Turner talent or not Turner anymore, but WBD talent, uh,

on on on a very very big property like that um so i think you just you have to sort of accept uh that's the case i'm trying to you know like the one thing i would say like i actually just happen to hear the uh odyssey sports minute not sure who did it but i couldn't disagree more with the that 40 second take there because to me um the tournament remains great when an underdog can make a play into the second week

Like, I get it.

You don't want High Point to play necessarily for the title, but I think you do want them to get to the second weekend.

That, to me, is what makes the sport great.

So I'm hoping that the NIL era does not eliminate us from any kind of second round in Sweet 16 where we get one or two FDUs or George Mason or something like that because I think that still gives the tournament –

like kind of its secret sauce.

That's what makes it, that's to me what makes it compelling.

Yeah, listen, man, I grew up in New York, so I'm a de facto not a fan of billionaires.