Coomer and Hummer bask in glow of the Bearcats 4th straight victory, all of which have come after a 25-day pause. 

Episode Rundown: 

*Don't overthink this - ENJOY it (5:20) 

*Brannen's decision to start Mike Saunders Jr. (12:35) 

*Trying to explain how the Bearcats have started winning games they were previously losing (20:20) 

*What is the Bearcats' "best" performance of the year? (29:25)

*The Redemption of Chris Vogt (35:57)

*Mason Madsen's rapid rise to fan favorite (39:00) 

*Power ranking 1-and-1 free throw shooters (43:20)

*Has your perspective on the rest of the season changed? (47:05)

*Locker room talk (55:10)

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Coomer and Hummer are joined by Justin Williams, staff writer at The Athletic, to discuss the Cincinnati Bearcats basketball team's return to play and much more.

Episode Rundown: 

4:35 - We kick things off by doing a root cause analysis on the Bearcats’ 2-game win streak.

12:18 - Are we getting a new, more assertive David DeJulius the rest of the season? 

17:44 - John Brannen’s lack of urgency in adjusting to what’s not working.

24:50 - Keith Williams’ natural fit for Brannen’s system. Still true? 

29:40 - How to fairly and effectively evaluate and judge this season? 

36:27 - Lack of news on the recruiting front. 

41:28 - Something or Nothing? 

43:07 - Which freshman (besides Tari) is Justin hodling with “diamond hands?”  

55:05 - Putting some damn respect on Jeremiah Davenport’s name.

59:20 - Luke Fickell’s new Defesnive Coordinator and Running Backs coaches. 

1:01:07 - John Cunningham’s first year recap and vision for the future.

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Coomer and Hummer celebrate the return of the Bearcats basketball team to the court after a 25-day COVID hiatus and their 63-60 victory over the Temple Owls. 

Episode Rundown: 

0:00 - John Brannen postgame radio show with Dan Hoard and Terry Nelson via 700 WLW

6:50 - VICTORY! 

9:34 - David DeJulius’ dominant performance. 

19:53 - Reframing how we think about the rest of this season.

24:39 - Standout performances against Temple.

27:54 - Keith Williams continues to find his footing.

34:15 - An unexpected debate over Mike Saunders Jr.

41:20 - Travis Kelce Super Bowl props.

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Coomer and Hummer kick off the podcast with a conversation about Travis Kelce's greatness (1:09), which snowballs into a discussion about who would be on the University of Cincinnati Bearcats Football Mt. Rushmore [WARNING: we went a bit off the beaten path on this one] (5:06). 

Afterward, we get into Hummer's forray into the Game Stop Short Squeeze (28:35). 

Finally, we discuss what we're missing most about Bearcats basketball. 

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Coomer and Hummer discuss Luke Fickell reportedly bringing on Mike Tressel (Michigan State) as the Bearcats new defensive coordinator (2:26) and Hummer identifies the true culprit of the corruption ravaging college football (8:50). 

Afterward, they discuss the recent cancellations/postponements for the Bearcats basketball team due to COVID-19 (17:28), John Brannen's philosophy in deploying Chris Vogt vs. Mamoudou Diarra (24:18), Zach Harvey's coming out party (30:47), and how to put the rest of the season in perspective (38:49). 

Finally, the wrap-up the podcast with Hummer teaching everyone how to start a rumor (45:57) and react to AD John Cunningham's local media tour (54:18). 

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Coomer and Hummer welcome back Cory Sims to the podcast, who decided to wear a UCLA hoodie for this episode (a bit aggressive). 

The conversation went all over the place for this one. Enjoy! 

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Coomer and Hummer discuss the recent announcements from the UC Football Team regarding who's back and who's gone, as well as the 3-7 Cincinnati Bearcats Basketball Team. 

We started with Desmond Ridder announcing his return to UC (1:55), the challenge of replacing James Hudson (5:20), and the departure of Marcus Freeman to Notre Dame (13:10). 

After diving into football, they chat about the Bearcats recent 1-1 road trip against SMU and Wichita State, starting off with the positive developments from Tari Eason, Zach Harvey, and Jeremiah Davenport (36:51), the team's overall tunnel vision for scoring (49:21), John Brannen's decision to go small (52:01), and Brannen's inability to get this team to stop turning the ball over and fouling (59:05). 

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Coomer and Hummer chat about the Bearcat disappointing loss to the Georgia Bulldogs in the Peach Bowl. They lead off the conversation chatting about the Bearcats' clock management/play calling on the final drive (4:57), "Reason We Lost" power rankings (17:25), positive takeaways from the Peach Bowl (28:40), standout performances from the game (35:22), favorite moments from the season (39:25), and our continued astonishment from the lack of presence from AD John Cunningham (44:10). 

After hashing through a lot of football thoughts, they tepidly dive into the Bearcat Basketball team's 5th straight loss, this time against Tulsa (49:38). 

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Coomer and Hummer kick off the podcast prognosticating about the Bearcats' upcoming tilt against the Georgia Bulldogs in the Peach Bowl (2:33). We ask whether we're getting enough out of UC Athletics leadership outside of Luke Fickell (16:20). We chat [hypothetically of course] about the Bearcats' Peach Bowl odds (24:25). 

About midway through the podcast we welcomed back Leonard Stokes to the podcast. Topics included whether there is a basketball vs. football rivalry (29:14), Stokes' thoughts on the Bearcats' 2-5 start (35:05), the program's reliance on grad transfers and how it differs from the program's past reliance on JuCo players (39:12), the "style of play" debate (45:27), and how Keith Williams' senior season transition to go-to guy compares to Stokes' senior season (53:15).

We gave Leonard a chance to talk about his Buffalo Bills and also got a great story to close the episode about why Cory Sims calls him "Larry" Stokes. 

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Coomer and Hummer celebrate the Bearcats American Athletic Conference Championship in football. Congratulations to Luke Fickell, Desmond Ridder, and the entire team. 

After chatting about the game, we get into the CFP Cabal (13:10) and just begin our conversation about the 2-4 Men's Basketball Team before B. Fox hops on the Zoom (25:43). 

We cover A LOT of ground in this conversation, including B. Fox showing Kerbstriet his Evil Wolf (28:45), The Luke Fickell Experience (32:22), the CFP shenanigans' potential impact on retaining coaches like Fickell (39:09), Coomer pretends to wrap-up the conversation (50:35), John Cunningham's very quiet approach (51:04), and finally, we ask B. Fox for ONE WORD to describe the Bearcats basketball team before proceeding to speak about them for 45 minutes (58:50).

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