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What’s the World Cup reaction and why do hosts joke about Team USA’s performance?
hey there i am gary parrish welcome back cbs sports ion college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds and leaky black matt norlander is here with me if you're watching on youtube honor brandon davies smash the like button if you haven't yet subscribed to the ion college basketball podcast please also do that wherever you subscribe to podcasts like spotify and apple let's get into it we are both getting ready matt norlander and i To head to Las Vegas for the Nike EYBL Circuit and NBA Summer League. It's going to be a big week. It's the EYBL's return to Vegas. First time since 2019, I believe. Norlander, I think you've been to Vegas more recently than that. I know I have.
You're looking forward to going back. This should be fun, shouldn't it?
It should be. Yeah, I'm looking forward to going back. We now do not have to deal and we'll pot. GP and I will find time one way or another to podcast from Vegas and give a little recap of the scenes going down there out in the desert. I was curious as to how our workflow was going to be affected by the potential. How dumb of all of us to think that maybe it would have been possible of a USA pasting at the hands of Spain because they were never going to beat Spain. We don't have to worry about that because they got.
Oh, my God. We rocked.
As I sent it out on Twitter on Monday night, that was a mid-major gets to the sweet 16. And then the real world comes crashing down upon you. Kind of wake up call. I know there was some hope. I know everyone wants to blame the president. Folks, it doesn't matter what had happened. Belgium is so much better than us. It was beyond clear. And the fact that they were bringing on guys like Doku and Lukaku in the second half, who are just... Way, way better than anyone we have on our roster showed everything. So we don't have to make this a full-blown Team USA World Cup recap pod. Although I've got some correspondence to get to in a second here. The shouts to CBS at gmail.com continues to get soccer-related emails.
These people, I don't know how... The wires have been crossed, but I can't help but chuckle. But yeah, no, listen, I was hoping that we'd be able to keep it competitive. A 2-1 loss would have been acceptable. That was a 4-1 blowout. I felt like Belgium could have won that thing 6-1 if they really, really wanted to.
That was a disgrace. That was a disgrace. I felt disgraced as an American. It made me want to reattach to my Mexican heritage. And I know Mexico lost.
Yeah, they did.
But at least they showed heart. At Azteca, they showed heart. We were on home soil. They showed heart on home soil. We had no heart on home soil. That looked like what Hubert Davis did to St. Peter's.
Yeah, not good. Not ideal. Well, you know, it's been a really, really fun World Cup. I'm scheduled to be there for France-Morocco Thursday.
Well, I hope both teams show up for your sake. I hope both teams show up.
I know. I hope so as well.
And what's going on with our goalie?
Dude, what are you doing? That's freeze froze is what I don't mean to step on.
I don't mean to try to sit here and pretend I'm a soccer analyst, but our goalies is stupid. That was the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
What do you want from me? We're going to be in Vegas. We'll recap there. We don't have to worry about watching Team USA play Spain because that game isn't going to happen. Spain will play. We would have lost by 50 if we played there.
That little 18-year-old would have scored 70 goals on us.
Yes, one of the best players in the world. We have a mailbag episode.
I wish his parents would have had premarital sex in the United States. We could have fixed this whole thing. We didn't think this through. We should fly his parents in.
The location of the premarital sex doesn't matter. It's the birth.
Okay, fine. They can do it anywhere, but then we got to get them here just like we did. That's how we got our best player. That's right. We just made it. We just trapped his mom here and said, deliver here. Birthright citizenship.
Yep.
And aren't we trying to take that away now?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What’s the World Cup reaction and why do hosts joke about Team USA’s performance?
0:14–25:20
2
What does the new “five years to play five seasons” rule mean — who becomes a ‘super senior’?
25:20–32:58
3
Will excessive NIL spending create new college basketball blue bloods and which schools could rise?
32:58–50:00
4
Which recent national champions rank as ‘elite’ vs ‘great’ — how do Parrish and Norlander tier the last 20 winners?
50:00–57:33
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