Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. All right, it's Boomer and Geo on the fan and CBS Sports Network coming to you live from the Built Ford Tough studio. The Red Pocket Mobile fan line is brought to you by your new Ultimate Cell Carrier Red Pocket Mobile.
But we have on this Red Pocket Mobile fan line is the head coach of Hofstra Men's Basketball, the 2026 CAA Tournament Champions, former NBA player and former NBA champion, Speedy Claxton. Speedy, good morning. How's it going? Good morning. How's everything? We're doing good, Speedy. It's great to talk to you, as always.
And, you know, you being a guard yourself, and I always think that, you know, college basketball is really about great guard play. And I can't sit here and tell you that I've watched you guys all this much this year, but I do know that you have two guards, and one of these kids is from Deer Park, and that is Preston Edmeade.
So they're going to be under a lot of pressure against Alabama, of course. But give me a little 4-1-1 on your guard play and how important it is to your success. Yeah, you don't know that because you're supposed to have been coming to the game, man. They're trying to get you here. Yeah, good luck.
Chapter 2: What insights does Hofstra Coach Speedy Claxton share about the NCAA tournament?
It's too far away. We're still waiting. Yeah, you're going to be waiting for a long time. I have two great guys. You know, he's a local kid. I've known him since he was in the eighth grade. You know, him and his brothers, they came to our team camps. And since then, I knew that that kid was going to be special.
You know, whenever I would do, you know, lectures and all that type of stuff, clinics, like I would actually volunteer. And I remember him always being the first one to throw his hand up. So I knew from that point that that kid was going to be special. Did I know I was going to be coaching him? In the coming years, no. But I'm glad I am. I'll tell you that.
So this was the dream, right, when you came back to Hofstra was to bring this team back to the tournament. You were one of the biggest names in program history. And when you get hired, everybody and the alumni, everybody gets very excited, but it's all about the results. And very quickly, here you are back in the tournament. And I saw the tears rolling down your face after the victory.
I mean, this meant a hell of a lot to you, didn't it? Oh, yeah. I mean, we're definitely in a results-driven age. You know, I knew everybody was excited about me getting the job. But then, you know, then comes reality. You got to win. I got to win. And, you know, I know that.
So I'm just thankful that I was able to get it done, you know, for myself, the program, the university, and the community because everybody's backing us. So I'm just happy to share this moment with everyone. Speedy Claxton joins us, head coach of Hofstra's Pride basketball team. They face off against Alabama, the number four seed from the SEC, a high-scoring team.
They're missing one of their best players who was arrested just recently. What do you tell your kids going into this game against a team like Alabama? You know, we lace them up just like they do. Don't be scared of the moment. I know my guys, they won't be. They actually play better in bigger games. So that's why we were able to beat Pitt at Pitt, Syracuse at Syracuse.
They get up for these type of games. So I'm more than confident that they'll be ready to go come tomorrow. Yeah, it doesn't look like a group that's just happy to be there. It looks like a group that's got more checks to check off on the way to wherever you guys go.
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Chapter 3: How does Speedy Claxton evaluate his team's guard play against Alabama?
But when you're a player and a recruiter and you're someone that, of course, played, you were drafted in what, the year 2000? And none of these kids these days are remembering that. But you can say that you played on a team with Steph Curry, right? You can say you played. on a team that won a championship.
Does your NBA career resonate with these guys when you get them on the team and during recruiting as well? Absolutely. It's different for the guys that I go after, that I recruit, because when I get them to campus, they're going to see pictures of me everywhere. And most of the time, their parents are going to be familiar with me. So they're going to inform them of who I am.
and who they have the possibility of playing for. You know, I think that – I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I think this is an unbelievable opportunity for you because maybe you're catching Alabama at the right time. But I do have to ask you, like Preston that you just talked about, and he's from Deer Park, and you love the kid. You've known the kid forever.
Is a place like Hofstra able to keep a kid like that, or do you think that you're afraid of losing him into the transfer portal? With Preston, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be able to keep him at least another year. After that, maybe not. But we already had a discussion that he's coming back for next season. But we'll see. Because, you know, things can change. You know, we're on a huge stage.
But as of right now, he did say he's coming back. You know, the grind that you have to have as a college basketball coach, I saw you firsthand really when this program turned around when I was an assistant coach for one game. That's really when it started, Boomer. Yes, I know. I can see that was really the impetus of this program turning around. When I saw it firsthand, I was in your office.
I was on the sideline. I was in the locker room. I mean, it takes every minute of every day. How do you avoid the burnout? You know what you signed up for, honestly. We know it's a grind, and it's even more of a grind with the forever changing landscape that we're in. So you guys just roll with the punches.
You know, we're going to play here until we lose a game, and then, you know, you take a little time off, and then you got to turn around and get ready for the transfer portal season. So we pretty much know what we signed up for, and, you know, we just go about it that way. You know, I was telling Gio about Cruz Davis. So he was with Rick Pitino at Iona, then St. John's, and now he's with you.
So there are players that you can actually get from other programs that are seasoned players, developed players, and have been coached hard. How has it been coaching him? Oh, it's been tremendous. Like Cruz Davis, he's a great player, but he's an even better person off the court, like I wish I could have 14 other guys like Cruz Davis. You talk about low maintenance, he's no maintenance.
He comes to work every single day. He's one of our hardest workers. And I'm just happy for him because after the season that he had last year, although he didn't make any all-conference teams, he could have went into the transfer portal and garnered a significant amount of money. But to his credit and to his dad's credit, they believed in him. what we are doing here at Hofstra.
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Chapter 4: What emotions did Speedy Claxton express after winning the CAA tournament?
Yeah. I wonder what that spread is on that game. I wasn't going to ask Speedy that, but, you know. Yeah. I think you got a number. What's your guess? My guess is probably like 13.5. You think? Yeah. Because I'm taking the amount of points that Alabama scores on average and the amount of points that Hofstra scores on average. And I'm going to come somewhere close to that number. I can't.
We can't bet on it. Why? In New York. Oh. So I got to look it up. It's not on the FanDuel app in New York. Stra-Alabama. Points for it. Can't bet on the college teams in New York. There you go. Between 11.5 and 13.5. Look at that. Look at that. All over it. On the nuts. On the nuts. But all I did is, analytically, I looked at the average amount of points scored by both teams. Yeah. That's good.
And, you know... Took an educated guess. I mean, it's a program that they're very proud of over there. No pun intended. And, you know, they had that success with Speedy and then had been, you know, a good team here or there. And, you know, obviously everybody would talk about Speedy and Jay Wright and those days. And they wanted to get back there.
And they went out and they convinced Speedy to take over the program, which is not something you want to do when you're a legend all the time. But you know how hard that is? Oh, I do. Yeah. I mean, especially in this day and age. And like I said, he's got this kid, Preston Edmeade, and he's a freshman. And so he's going to be playing as Alabama.
Let's say he goes out and plays his ass off against Alabama and has an unbelievable game, and let's say they upset. Guess who Alabama's calling? Oh, sure. Yeah. Of course. I mean, every player is being evaluated by opposing coaches.
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Chapter 5: How does Speedy Claxton plan to motivate his players for the game against Alabama?
Yeah. Yeah. Which really sucks. It does. And you hear Speedy talk about, I'm pretty sure I can keep him here. But then again, money talks. At least another year, he said. Yeah. Which would be great. Which would be exactly, maybe Cruz Davis comes back. I guess he's a junior, I'm assuming. I don't know if he's a junior or senior. He's in third school, yeah.
You feel buzz or no buzz tournament this year? I feel like there's really no buzz. And the only reason I say that is because I think that college athletics has really turned off a lot of people. I really do. I don't think it's not what it used to be. But then I feel like college football is as big as it's ever been. That's what it feels like to me.
But then again, I mean, we also have a team here in St. John's that was a top 10 basketball team, one of the regulars, and they sell out the garden. I will say watching them play in the Big East Tournament, when we watched all the games on the golf trip, it was great. It was really, I mean, it was fun because a couple guys on the trip are really into, as you know, are into St. John's.
So they knew all the players, knew everything that was going on, everything Rick was doing, and they're all screaming and yelling. You know, we're up 12 with four minutes to go. Can we pull it out and hold on to the ball a little bit? And they're all screaming and yelling. Sure. I'm like, if you want me to send a video message to Rick Pitino, I'll do it. So I did. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, my God.
You just bother him all the time. Yeah. I just said, well, congratulations, coach. I just want you to know I'm with a bunch of hammock heads here. that basically have no idea what they're talking about. And if you want to suggest to them to shut up, you can. And turn the phone around. Unbelievable. I mean, you bothered him on the golf course. You bothered him during the game.
You really just all over his ass. Look. Look what's happened. You're taking credit for it. What is he doing? Since the moment he got here, number one, he did this at Iona, too. Of course. Which I do appreciate. He was selling and promoting Iona, Iona, Iona, Iona, all of that. Then he takes the job at St. John's, and that's all he's been doing.
He's trying to get people to come see them at the garden. He's trying to get money raised for the school. He's trying to do everything he possibly can at the age of, what, 72? Yeah. That's amazing. And I heard Moresh talking about this in the newsroom. One thing, before legalized sports gambling, one of the biggest things out of the year was the office pool with your brackets.
And people would get into it. And it's almost like because we have access – to gambling so much every single day, every week, every month with all this stuff that maybe we're not as into the brackets, which then takes some juice out of the tournament because I thought that was a very good point by him because I can't think of really any other reason why you don't feel as much buzz as normal.
I mean, especially with a couple of local teams around. I know St. John's fans and the fans that have been there for a while are into it. But how many people have you spoken to in your life that say they hate what's going on in college sports? Yeah. It's a big talking point. So many people have been turned off by it. You know, that it's not what, like I said, it's not what it used to be.
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Chapter 6: What challenges does Speedy Claxton face in retaining talented players like Preston Edmeade?
Yeah. I told you, I'm totally disenchanted with the whole thing. Yep. Simply because of my own personal experience. It went too far. I mean, there was a point where you felt like the athletes were getting taken advantage of. Their jersey, if they were popular players, getting sold in the college bookstore and not getting any money for it. Their likeness is on a video game.
They're not getting any money for it. So that stuff was fine when they started getting that. Now it's got completely out of control, and there needs to be guardrails on it, and there isn't. It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. It is Jerry's birthday. I feel like we're just being messed with by Stephen Waldron. I think this is because you can't be this inept at getting food to this studio.
He has to be doing this just to screw with us because we screw with him all the time. I'm going to send you breakfast. I think I enjoy it. I do. I think that you enjoy the fact that you have fooled us into thinking breakfast is going to come and now your evil mind is like, oh, this is great. All I care about is Hofstra beating Alabama tomorrow and now I've got bagels on my plate.
How fired up he is. He's pissed off. Good for him. The latest update I got was 8.35. It was going to be here in 10 to 15 minutes. What's going on now? I don't know. Bagels can't go from one door to the other. What happened? It's unbelievable how bagels can't get delivered from one door to the other. So where are they? I told you last, 835. It's an hour ago. I don't know who the guy is delivering.
I wish I did. If you're using a delivery app, all of the information is there. I'll go check. I didn't order first. Our guy Chris did. Why don't you go to Chris and be like, what does the app say? I mean, how hard is this? You're talking about bagels. Bagels are canceled. Happy birthday, Jerry. Thanks, Stephen. You use a DoorDash or Uber Eats or something. Go over and look at the app.
It gives you an exact time it's supposed to show up. It tells you where the guy is. They got a freaking Apple Air tag in the guy's head. Happy birthday, Jerry. Steven, thank you. I appreciate the effort. I mean, this is twice. We had plates set up out there and everything. I mean, but then when it's going wrong, you just let it go wrong. That's the thing I don't understand.
I can't help it if the guy puts stuff on the park bench and leaves like last time. Well, that was just the cream cheese. At least it showed up. The food showed up. This time we got nothing. I mean, why wouldn't the guy come in the building, go to the security desk, and the security desk call him here? He knows who it's for. He knows you guys are trash. He'll be on the air. No, he doesn't.
This guy has no idea. Well, this is where we order from, does. Well, but that's not their fault. Well, he's two hours late, so he should be trashed. The guy, hold on. Just tell me, did you use one of the big delivery services? Yes. Okay. So that's not – the person who is delivering that food is not hearing any of this.
That man probably just got here from Senegal three weeks ago, bought a bike, and is riding it around delivering stuff. Well, he should be hired then. But he was. So it's not – nobody is killing the bagel place. Nobody. It's not they made the order. They gave it to the guy. Where the guy went with this, nobody knows. Except the guy who ordered it and has it all on his app.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the current NCAA tournament buzz according to the hosts?
But I do think, in fairness, if you place an order like that and you've got instructions to call a specific number and you're just bypassing that and taking the default number. But here's the other thing. If you're the person who has that account, and this is an important thing, you don't want to F it up, you can see where the driver is and see when he shows up there.
So if I'm someone who's diligently trying to get this done, I'll see, hey, Al, he shows that he's there. Did he call you? No, he did not. Oh, he's there. Oh, okay. Well, I'll go down and get the food. That was like when you told me a couple weeks ago, it'll be here in two minutes. Yes. Right, and I went and got him down there.
And that's when I told CeeLo, go down, and he's on his way, and he blew it and didn't go, and then he had to go running all over the building to find the guy. Right. All right. Anyway, Jerry. Oh, boy. Just quickly, brought to you by Chef IQ, precision cooking, effortless results, chefiq.com. The Cade Cunningham news that came out from Shams, which we have not discussed.
I don't know if it's a full or partially collapsed lung, but he is going to be out for a while, they say. Now, you mentioned T.J. Watt dealt with this. Yeah, there it is. There it is. T.J. Watt wound up missing three and a half weeks. Okay. But that was a partially collapsed lung. Partially collapsed lung. What do you want me to do with it? That's not my phone number. Oh, we figured it out.
It's one number off. We figured it out. Steven, you gave him the wrong phone number. It's right on camera. You gave him the wrong phone number. That's a pigeon eating a bagel. That's the picture we got. It also has the Boomer and Geo show with G-E-O. What are you guys doing? What are you doing? Did you come up with this where you put the Al Dukes phone number in there, Steven? Was that you? No.
No. Okay. Well, whoever that was is the culprit because this guy was calling somebody else's number. It's not Al's number. Had to be with the phone. Had to be. Yep. Somebody in Jersey getting woken up at 7 a.m. for bagels. Yeah, right, right. Of course. Hello? Hello! Hello! You want me to call that number and see if I could reach that person? That would be great.
Yes, that would absolutely be great. Their phone's probably been ringing off the hook for the last two hours. Who is it now? All right, yeah, so Cade Cunningham collapsed along. I do remember the TJ Watt thing that had happened, and so he was back at three and a half weeks. So it's not like he's going to be out for the playoffs, I don't think. But here's the thing.
What does this do for the last 12 games here? Can the Knicks or the Celtics catch them for the number one seed? That could possibly happen. Four out? Five out? The Knicks are – the Celts are three and a half out. The Knicks are five out. Okay. The Knicks have won four in a row. The Celts have won three in a row. And Detroit has won one in a row.
The thing about it is I caught two of the Celtics' last games – And Jason Tatum looks like he hasn't missed a beat. Yeah. So I would say, look, man, that's the team that would worry me. You know, a little bit of revenge from last year. Yeah, absolutely. And he looks great. I mean, he looks fluid. He looks great. He's shooting great. And he's got another 10, 12 games to get ready.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts react to the breakfast delivery mishap?
Right outside, 345, put it right on the ground, the order. Why wouldn't they go in the building and put it in the building? It's a really stupid person, is what it had to be. You can't leave bagels on the ground and then take a picture of it and be like, this is okay, I got it. But why did someone say, got it? Delivered, it says, delivery photo, delivered, got it. I don't know.
Who did the got it part? I don't know. Is that the front or the back? That's the front. Okay. Yeah, the back is 5'55". That's right in between.