Dusty May and players preview Alabama

There's going to be a lot of extra juice for sure. I know I'm going to try my best to be the best player on the floor tomorrow. And it's just all it is, extra motivation, you know, just not in a sense where I'm like, this is what you guys missed out on. But like, you know, you guys could have at least called or something like that.

You know what I mean? Like, yeah, something like that. But yeah, there's no bad blood. Like, you know, maybe I didn't fit the system or anything like that, but, you know, I'm excited to see him.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Yes, we were— we were extremely late to the game as well. When we actually made contact with Yaxel Lendeborg's mentor after their season ended, he said, Yaxel Lendeborg's actually— he's upset with you because you haven't called. After they— I think it was the NIT, maybe the second or third round. He said, "Yaxel Lendeborg's actually—" And I had spoken with Andy Kennedy prior to that and their staff, but he said, "Yaxel Lendeborg's actually disappointed in you that you haven't made contact and no one with Michigan has made contact."

And I said, "Well, you know, I've talked to AK. We're not disrupting anyone's season no matter what rumors are out there. Usually we just call the head coach." But then he asked me why we were in so deep.

And I told him that, The person that Yaxel Lendeborg trusts the most is a guy that I coached coincidentally 20-some years ago. And he felt like this would be a great environment and we could help Yaxel Lendeborg with what he needed to improve on. Yaxel Lendeborg went through the process and tried diligently to get a first-round guarantee and couldn't get one.

And then it made sense for him to come and try to improve and develop and be on this big stage. Okay, we got front row.

I just follow football, to be honest. You know, when they announced these numbers, I thought, wow, is everyone going to be under this cap? And then football spins 3 times. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about— I have my own opinions on where the game needs to go and, and why we failed our sport for so long as as coaches and administrators to let it get to this point.

Uh, because it ultimately, it's our fault. We've been making these decisions on such an obtuse level for so long that now it's, it's, it's blown up in our face. And so now we have a responsibility to fix it and to make sure it's equitable and fair, uh, for everyone. So I don't know.

I don't know. I've seen, I've heard the numbers, I've heard from agents and it doesn't seem as though the rev share number is any type of hard cap.