Rodger Sherman

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The Dan Le Batard Show · PTFO - Share & Cinderella & Tell with Lucy Rohden and Rodger Sherman · 20 Mar 2025 podcast

There's, like, if you go to a college basketball tournament and you have a press pass and you're in the behind-the-scenes area, you will see a lot of mascots, like, with their head off drinking, like, some Gatorade or whatever to stay.

I remember I was at the St. Peter's one a couple years ago, and, like... Like at UNC, there must be like 20 guys like trying to be the UNC mascot. But like the St. Peter's guy was really chill. And I just remember him walking off the – walking out of the area and just being like, hey, where's the pizza?

And I was like – I just – he was definitely less of a professional than the other mascots on the scene.

And he lost to North Carolina too. Yeah. He ruined everything.

Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Was the word you said metaphysical, cosmological? Yeah. There's a lot of that going on.

So going region by region here in the West, you know, again, once again, we're skipping all the single digit seeds. We're here just to talk about the University of Nebraska at Omaha and their first NCAA tournament, the 15 seed.

What I love about this team is that in December, when they were, I believe, four and nine, their team started a tradition of just beating the crap out of a trash can in the locker room before the games. And it worked. They were the best team in the Summit League. They won the conference. They made the NCAA tournament, they got the bid. And I think this is great strategy.

First of all, they really go at these trash cans.

Yeah, they really go at these trash cans. I saw a video where one of the guys jumps off like a fridge onto it and does like a wrestling move. And he's like a player on the team. And I was like, that seems like a lot of, like a little risky move just to beat up a trash can.

Trash can destruction circle.

I'm not sure if it's a BYO situation where they're at like a road game. They're going to destroy your team's like the trash can you purchased. Ooh, that's a good question. I'm not sure how they are handling the logistics of the NCAA tournament. You know, they're all going to neutral sites.

So like I was saying, they were four and nine and the assistant coach decided to do it as a motivational tool. And people are like, it turned around their season after that point. I think the actual thing that turned around their season is just that they had a really hard non-conference schedule. And they were a pretty good team in the Summit League.

And then they started conference play and they started winning. So like incredible job by that assistant coach to realize the perfect time to deploy your motivational tactic is when your team has just played like Iowa State and I think like Minnesota and some other, you know,

big non-conference teams and then the rest of your your season is is against uh south dakota south dakota state north dakota north dakota state st thomas um so smart thinking by him i also there was a quote by i was reading one of the stories about the trash can situation and he said he confirmed that none of the trash cans they beat up have mothers and fathers they're all orphaned they're all

I'm not sure what his point was there.

I think he was trying to say like, there's no one feeling bad on their behalf, but that somehow made it sadder to me.

The Trash Kids thought they were safe for a few years because the Astros really made it seem like that was an uncool thing to do. And now everyone's beating them. And what I really liked when they won the Summit League tournament, the— I'm not sure how this fits into the mythology of it, but they were presented the trophy out of a trash can.

They hoisted it out of there, which was really beautiful.

They seemed pretty chill with that one.

Of the teams in this region, the one that I love the most is the Akron Zips. I have come in my Akron Zips t-shirt.

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