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let's get this thing started. Welcome in Happy Monday. Coffee and Company.
That's the name of the show, Nick Coffee. That is my name,
and the company man, mister John Alden, is alongside today. I was
about to ask you a question, John, but then I realized I'd be
putting you in a tough spot as soon as the show started, because you
don't have an iPhone. So on your Android phone? Well, is it
a Samsung. Yes, it's like the most common manufacturer of phones that are
the Android os? Right, Yes, those are Google phones. So do
you get like when a number of calls that is not saved, do you
get spam? Risk? Usually says scam likely okay, so something like that.
So usually you know that I just realized as soon as I've been getting
blown up in the last ninety seconds on my phone that I haven't had those
kind of calls in a while, at least not many of them. There
was a stretch there where I mean it was like five times we talked about
it, like I got bored and I started answering it and just messing with
them. And that was stupid because it just led to them, you know,
calling I guess I got flagged as somebody that answers. So you know,
even if the one person who called couldn't scam me, they probably kept
me in the system saying, you know, I was gettable. So it's
the same number that called like five times and it says spam risk. I
don't know the number. I went to message the number to see if it's
a contact that is didn't save, so it probably is, you know,
a scammer. But usually if they don't, if you don't get a they
don't get a response, they don't call you right back. So as we
start to show kind of has me worried, like that somebody's trying to reach
out to me that needs to get in touch with me, but you know,
they know where I am, and plus they really need to say something,
leave a voicemail. Yeah, is that too old school? I feel
like voicemails might be a little old school, but I'm not afraid to so
here here one So voicemails don't happen at all and anymore other than like a
doctor's appointment calling you to like let you know your appointment reminder. I mean,
voicemails do still exist, but I feel like voicemails are more of like
an office work setting, like you got to you gotta you know your your
inbox. I mean, I've assume people who still work that you know,
work an office job, a cubicle, whatever it may be, like they
use a work phone and not, you know, a cell phone. But
then again, you can do everything you need to do on a cell phone.
But occasionally I'll get a voicemail from somebody and it's because they know that
when I because I just think it's now just become socially acceptable to not answer
the phone if it's a number that you don't know, if it's your personal
cell phone, and like if you're like a realtor or something like that.
Or you know, I guess depends on what you do. But like my
phone is used for work, but again my work is different than most.
So like if I was if I was, you know, a salesman or
something, and I had my own personal phone, you know, my own
work phone aside from a personal phone, I should say, like, you
know, I would answer calls that I don't know the number, because you
know, maybe somebody call and they want to buy a house for me if
I'm in real estate, or buy a car or something if I'm selling cars,
but it'll be somebody like hey, you know, hey, I no,
you don't know about They don't say it, but the last time I
got a voicemail was from somebody who said, hey, this is such and
such. You know, here's who I am. Can you give me a
call? And that way they're at least letting me know that. Like they
they're aware that I'm probably not going to answer, but if you listen to
the voicemail, you may want answers. Actually, when I went and did
that TV interview at WHS eleven after they hired Pat Kelsey, you know,
I got a call from a number I don't know, so she left me
voicemail, and then I knew, hey, I'll reach back out to her.
I guess you could always text, but I don't know, Like I
think some people would maybe be bothered, like, you know, this person
doesn't know me, how they get my number? Why are they texting me?
I feel like a voicemail is more formal for that specific Totally yeah,
totally agree. And you know, text messages, obviously you lose the ability
to kind of, you know, interpret really what It's not always what someone
says, it's how they say it, yep, And text message you really
never know. You could conventure yourself they're saying it in any way. So
anyway, I think we're good. Four minutes in, I think I now
am of the belief that these these spam callers are legitimately spam scammers and not
somebody you know, trying to reach me for an emergency. But anyways,
let's let's get it started. Beautiful Monday, a little breezy, but man,
it is awesome outside. And we had a great weekend. Louisville football
spring game on Friday night. The weather actually got better as the evenings started,
and I know they had a good crowd out there. Wasn't able to
go and actually wasn't able to see it live, but I did watch it
on replay the UH on Saturday morning, and I've got some thoughts on that.
But overall, the weekend itself, I mean, Thunder over Louisville seemed
like a big success. I mean, somebody got shot, and that's awful.
But anybody claiming they're surprised to hear that as a liar, I mean,
that's just the reality of it. I mean, John, did you
know somebody got shot at thunder? If I'm telling you for the first time,
now, are you surprised? You're not surprised? Are you not surprised?
But I didn't know? Yeah? So, And there's something sneaky awesome
about me being able to share like news like that with you because it gives
me a chance to get like a raw and real like response from you,
you know what I mean, Like you know you have it, had time
to digest it, but I could tell body language says a lot. You're
not at all surprised to hear somebody gets shot just because you know, we
shoot people in Louisville a lot. It's it's awful, but it's it's you
know it's it's awful, But anyways, outside of that, thunder was great.
And I know the weather a little bit on the older side, but
hey, I feel like more often than not when we've had thunder of Louisville
and I don't go to it. It's not my thing. I'm not a
fireworks person at all. I was actually at a wedding very far away from
thunder at the time that that happened. But I feel like more often than
not we get awful weather for thunder, like it's cold, rainy or maybe
both at the same time. Just gross. So all in all, I'd
say the weather was nice. And then I know they had a great night
at at Lynn Stadium as a racing absolutely beat down the Utah Royal. I
think that's their name, right. It was a five to one beat down.
I told Jeff Freer when he was on with us Friday night, not
John, you did that. Utah. They don't know what it coming.
They had it coming, you know, gonna be a rough visit and stay
here in Louisville. And that's exactly what ended up happening. So they went
out to the pitch for the match and they got beat down. That's exactly
what happened, and that's the extent of my soccer analysis that I'll share with
you guys here on a Monday afternoon. All right, So again, Mondays
are always really busy. This will be no different. I mentioned some spring
game takeaways. We'll get to that a little bit later on, but I
do want to get to the latest on Penny Boone, and I promise you
we will do that in just a few minutes, because there was reports over
the weekend that he may be coming back to Louisville. Now, he's also
still considering other schools and one of those schools is Kentucky. So we'll get
into that because I learned a little bit about his situation over the weekend and
have I have I guess what you would say, maybe some strong thoughts on
like what Louisville and Jeff Brahm should do from here, and I feel like
it's like a no brainer. But then again, you know, maybe I'm
wrong, Like maybe you know, maybe this guy is worth asking to come
back. And then a lot of visitors for Louisville over the weekend for Louisville
basketball, I should say, a lot of visitors over the last few days
really ben hectic, been kind of tough to keep up with. I think
we've had at least two visitors since Pat Kelsey's been hired. That like maybe
the planned trip was set for a few days, maybe a week. I
mean the transfer, the transfer portal stuff is really fast moving. But I
feel like, you know, you'll know of this guy, that guy,
the other guy visiting in like a three day window, and then all of
a sudden you'll see pictures and there's another kid and you're like, oh,
why isn't that former such and such player he's here too, So uh,
there hasn't been any commitments since the visits, and I don't know if I
was really like expecting that, But some fans seem to be getting a little
uneasy. In fact, some appear to be losing their mind. And you
know that's not that's not ideal. I mean, I don't want anybody to
be you know, one, it's great that you care, but two,
like you know there's nothing you can do about it, right, And and
I just I find myself seeing the I don't want to act like Louisville fans
are acting like complete psychopaths because they haven't landed a commitment in what four days.
But there are some that you know, are on that side of it,
right, like they get they're just you know, they're the super fans,
sick of fans, whatever you want to call them. And I find
myself really enjoying seeing that, not because you know, I'm taking joy in
their misery and not even sure if they're miserable, but like they're worried,
and I don't want them to be worried. But it just reminds me that,
you know, we're this is how our fan base can be because we
care so much, right we are, you know, we're obsessed, and
it's just been lifeless for a couple of years, and you know, we
have no clue how this is going to work out. We have no clue
wo's going to be on the team next next season, but to follow along
as they're trying to build a completely new roster, and they're already off to
a pretty good start, I'd say with the additions that they've they've added five
players have decided to transfer to Louisville since Pat Kelsey was hired, of course,
to follow them from Charleston. The others were notable pickups in the portal
and now they've got a lot more scholarships to fill. They've been hosting a
lot of players, so it's just fun to follow along, and it's just
nice to be reminded that I've forgotten. Not that I doubted that Louisville fans
would be like this once we had a new era, but just to kind
of see it play out in real time, it's, I don't know,
it gives me, I guess, a sick level of joy because again,
I don't like seeing people lose their mind on the internet. But it's a
reminder that you know, we're back, we care, so we'll get into
it. Because again, there are many that have visited. There's some updates
on those guys, and then you know, there's not a whole lot of
updating on a few of them, which doesn't really mean anything, right,
but because of how much people are excited about seeing this roster come together,
I think if there's like an hour without an update from a player, rather
it be a recruiting insider or somebody who covers a team, or maybe an
Instagram story, that could be some kind of an indication about which way they're
leaning. I mean, it just seems like, you know, any any
hour that passes without an update. I think some people just have the nat
there. They just assume the worst, which is, you know, kind
of silly, but again, it just a reminder. It reminds me how
much people actually care about this kind of stuff. And then and Mark Pope,
he landed his first transfer over the weekend. We can certainly discuss that
because solid pick up, no doubt, but it's just weird. It is
just really really weird to see Kentucky fans just get the kind of players that
you know, most schools would feel fine about, but you know, Kentucky's
different. They are you know, they're arrogant, right, and for the
most part, They're arrogance has been justified throughout the history of college basketball.
We know that they are, you know, one of the premier programs and
a bunch of national championships, YadA, YadA, we know, right,
but Cal was the most arrogant man in college basketball. Maybe so he kind
of you know, he rubbed off on him, so, especially early on
in the Calipari era, I mean, it was a match made in heaven
that fan base. They're arrogance along with Cal. I mean it was you
know, they were the villains of college basketball, and you know, most
of the time people villains because you know they're super successful, right, so
to see that and it's not just you know, they weren't. As you
know, clearly cal has lost a little bit of you know, not a
little bit, probably lost a lot of good will with that fan base over
the years, just especially the last five six years because of how badly things
have fallen off. So you know, with that, they still landed a
bunch of really good players that, like everybody would want. I mean,
what do you think ninety eight percent of the players that ever committed to Caliperry
at Kentucky probably could have I mean, could have gone really anywhere they wanted.
Think about that. Not all of them, right, There's some exceptions,
but think about it, like ninety eight percent roughly, I'm just getting
me. I'm just throwing out a number. I can't prove that. But
if you go through and look at the scholarship players that have committed to Caliperry
at Kentucky high school kids, maybe some transfers here, and mostly high school
recruits. It's not that they could have literally picked any school. They could
have. They could have picked school in the country and they would have taken
them. But I do feel like about you know, ninety something percent of
them. You know, any other school would have taken any of those guys,
because again, they're they're elite talent, and it's just gonna be so
different with Mark Pope, which doesn't mean it's bad, but it's just weird
to see Kentucky fans doing what any fan should do. I think, right,
you know, share your you know, I guess you don't have to.
But like, there's nothing I'm saying that is in any way being critical
of Kentucky fans because look the addition that they got the kid from Decane.
I'm sorry, Drexel Amari Williams. That's a good pickup, you know,
top fifty ish player in the portal depending on where you're looking at the rankings,
and you know, it's a nice piece. They need players and he's
a good one, so you know, any any positive response from Kentucky fans
is totally normal. But it's just so weird because for so long that was
that they would make fun of people who like those players, and there's nothing
to do about it now, but it's just to me, it's wild to
see it is. So we are loaded today. I haven't even mentioned yet,
but it's NFL Draft week. I love the NFL Draft. It kind
of snuck up on me this year. I I mean, I know a
lot of the storylines at the top of the draft, as far as you
know Caleb Williams and you know who's believed to be in line to hear their
name called in the top ten. But as far as the local players,
you know Louisville, I think we'll have more representation in this NFL Draft than
they've had in quite some time. I don't think you're going to see anybody
be taken super high, but that matters, man Like, that's that that's
a big deal. So Jeff Brom coming off year one, there's gonna be
guys that played at UFL but really only played for you know, only played
for him because they transferred in like Garndo Thrash those guys. So we'll talk
a little a little bit about that, maybe not as much today, but
we've got the rest of the week to do so. So thank you guys
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you did it. All right, So I want to start with this the
penny boon up to here. So last week we were at least I was
educated. John might have been playing dumb because you know, he's young,
but we learned what standing on business means. And Penny Boone left Louisville and
really did not go out gracefully in any way. He hit the portal and
I guess was bothered. There was some talk that maybe one of the reasons
he was leaving is because he wasn't where he wanted to be on the depth
chart. And then he posted a video on his Instagram story which was quickly
deleted, where he discussed, you know, standing on business, which indicated
that it was like money related. I mean, I guess he didn't come
out and say that, but that's that's what it. That's to me,
And I think him showing highlights, which, by the way, I don't
know anything about this guy as far as like posting, you know, the
the spring practice highlights, you know from like a camera that's like from the
ceiling at the practice facility. Like you know, it was a good play,
cool, but like I just I don't know if that was like the
flex that any you know, that's just not really necessary to me. It
seems like you're really desperate to show people that, like you weren't. No,
no, watch this play. There's no way I was second or third
string. So anyways, he was on his way out and I thought we'd
never hear from the guy again. And then there's a report that he's considering
a few other schools, but also considering a potential return to Louisville, which
you know, I mean, if you can get him back. Put it
this way, if Jeff Brown feels like he needs him and feels like he
can make it work, then you know, I'd be cool with it.
I mean, I actually think at the running back position that they have some
pretty good pieces, but you can never have too much depth, especially at
that position. So the report from over the weekend was that he was considering
I believe it was Washington and Miami and he was going to take a visit
there. Well, turns out, I'm sorry, not Miami, Washington,
and Old Miss. So he never ended up making the trip to Seattle,
and there's really not any guarantee that he's going to end up taking a trip
to Old Miss. And I don't when this kind of stuff happens, I
tend to think it's either we don't have the money that you would need,
so like, you know, we're just gonna cut We're gonna cut ties here,
and you know, we wish you the best. Or is it they
don't have the scholarships, because again there's a lot of coaches that have probably
advised players to hit the portal post spring because they need scholarships available so they
can go fill some holes that they you know, they feel like they have.
So I don't know what happened with Washington or ole miss but now he
is apparently visiting Kentucky and I think he's already taken this visit. Maybe it's
today, maybe it's going on right now. I'm not sure, but a
return to Louisville is on the table, and Kentucky is also pursuing him,
and you know, I don't know if they I mean again, you never
know, right, does he have an offer? Right? Is it a
big nil kind of thing? So this is a guy who on his way
out you know, since been deleted, but he didn't really go about it
the right way, and you know, his hit I don't know who his
agent is, but this is this is a good update I got over the
weekend. As good as an update, I guess, as someone like myself
could get is that his agent is apparently the guy who has been leaking things
about Louisville not being able to honor their NIL you know, commitment to players,
which you know, uh, that's not true. I guess they assumed
that they would get money like up front and it wouldn't be a thing to
where you kind of you know, it's it's a I don't think anybody out
there is getting every dime of NIL that you know that they agree to,
right, because we all know they're not supposed to do that. But that
is why transfers and high school kids pick a school. NIL is part of
that. So I doubt there's been anybody that is that is I guess accepted
an NIL package and got all of it like right away. Like I just
don't think that would work that way, or I don't even know why you
would want it that way, to be honest with you, So I don't
I don't know if in fact, there's some guys that are just now hitting
the portal today in basketball because they were waiting for their last NIL payment from
their previous school to come through. So you know, I think he's got
a bad agent. And when I say bad agent, I shouldn't say that
this guy is, you know, he's terrible at his job, because I'm
not an agent, I don't. I mean, but I think despite this
new world of you know, nil on the portal, I mean, it's
still new. We're learning on you know, we're learning on the go here.
But I just feel like his agent has has, you know, not
gone about it the way you would in a professional way. Now, if
he just wanted out, then he wanted out. But here's what I think
is happening. If he's considering a return to Louisville and Ole miss that visit's
probably not happening anymore. He was going to have a visit schedule to Washington,
never made the trip to Seattle. That tells me they're looking for more
money. They want more money right now. And a lot of times when
you reset, when you I guess, when you hit the portal, you're
resetting the market on what you're worth. I'm sure there are plenty of guys
who've hit the portal really not thinking that they for sure would leave, but
they wanted to see what their value was. And I don't know if that's
what and if that's what Penny Boone did. Look he's got a right to
do that, but like it was silly. I mean again, maybe Louisville
takes him back, or you know, maybe he wants to come back and
Jeff Brom takes him. And if that's what Jeff wants to do, then
that's cool. You know, it's his decision. I think he would know
best as to what his team needs. But I don't know. Man,
like if we if this guy on his way, you know, handle things
the way he did on his way out, then comes back and like we
hear there's more nil, like if he gets more money, Like I just
cannot imagine that that would happen. But you know, we'll see. I
mean, I mean, I honestly would rather just see actually hope he goes
to Kentucky, to be honest with you, just because one it would be
it would be funny, you know. And I don't think he's elite by
any means. I think he's good. And you know, trust me,
this isn't somebody Louisville like wanted to lose. This isn't somebody that like,
well, you know, they were hoping he'd go so they could free up
the scholarship. But clearly things just haven't really it didn't work out. I
mean, he's he's unhappy for you know, probably a couple things. He
maybe he wanted more of his money up front, and he was having to
compete and earn reps and I guess he wasn't expecting to have to do that,
which is kind of odd. But again, he is visiting Kentucky maybe
as we speak, and I just have a hard time thinking Jeff Brown would
know that and say, hey, come on home. But we'll see.
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll go back on the other
side again. I've got some takeaways from the spring game as far as you
know, as much as you can from a spring game. And then also
all these visitors that Louisville basketball has had over the last few days. There's
not like big updates on really any of them. But we'll at least reset
and try to catch people up because it is hard to keep up with as
far as this, you know ever, I mean, heck, there's probably
thirty forty new college basketball players that hit the portal today, and given that
both Louisville and Kentucky have really almost an entire roster to fill, I mean,
I think you're gonna see Will Kentucky in on a lot of these guys,
not because they're trying to compete with each other, but like they're both
in a similar situation to an extent. All right, don't go anywhere,
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I mentioned the portal and giving you guys, I guess you know is as
good of an update at least that I can, which probably isn't anything better
than what you're seeing on a discord or on social media or whatever it may
be. But I know there's a lot of folks that just don't have time
to be tracking that, So we will do that in just a second.
However, the football, I mean Louisville football is also going to be very
busy in the portal because they've had some guys I think three players as of
this morning have entered the portal officially and you know, these are guys that
probably are leaving just because they're not where they want to be on the depth
chart, and Jeff Bram, i'm sure is happy not to see them leave,
but happy to have their scholarship available because you know, I think they're
going to be put it this way, I think Jeff Bram will once again
do what you know, do what he always does, which is go out
and get way better players to enter the program via the portal then player you
know again, the guys who leave Louisville, for the most part, it's
not to say they're bums and that Loulva dount want him anyway. But whoever
leaves Jeff Bram I think is batting close to a thousand as far as going
and getting somebody that actually, you know, on paper is better. So
we'll get to that a little bit later on. But the visitors in the
last I don't know, five days, I'm pretty sure from Thursday all the
way up until Sunday there were visitors for Louisville basketball. And it started,
I guess on Thursday with the commitment that Louisville got from Ali Khalifa. So
you know, two commitments for Pat Kelsey last week Javon Hadley of Colorado and
then Ali Khalifa from BYU, And I wouldn't be shocked if they get two
more this week, and I'd say the most likely commits. And this isn't
to say that it's a for sure thing it's happening, but it appears that
Corain Johnson, the guard from Washington who did visit on Friday, it sounds
like, I mean Louisville despite really, you know, they're not being a
whole lot out there about this guy, meaning Johnson. Maybe it's because he's
you know, he's on the West coast, but I like since he hit
the portal and Louisville was one of you know, Louisville was reported to be
one of the many schools interested. It just for some reason is always indicated.
It's always seem as if Louisville's the one to beat here, like they've
got this kid pretty much finished, which you know that could be total nonsense,
but it certainly looks like they're in good shape there. And then the
other is a Bubba car Trey or the Long Beach State transfer who I mentioned
you just in an absolute stat stuff for a guy who I think at three
triple doubles. Last week he visited, I believe on I think his visit
was supposed to be the eighteenth, which was Thursday, but I think he
actually ended up visiting on the nineteenth, and maybe was here on Saturday as
well. So the other visitors, and obviously we'll get to Jade and quant
into just a second. But Ben who hum Riches probably not saying that correctly.
I've heard somebody say that name correctly, and I don't remember how it's
pronounced. Let me see if there's like a because some rosters, like if
you go to the roster, like the team page, it'll it'll give you
like the little audio that you can click on and it'll tell you how to
pronounce. But hum Richest, There's no way I'm saying that right right.
I'm just maybe it's because the lack of confidence I have in any name at
this point, but it just doesn't sound like that would be his name.
But he is a six to nine big man who played at Evansville last year.
And again, I know there are people out here covering this stuff like
crazy. In fact, what's happened is truly Donovan, who, by the
way, despite us not knowing who he is, he's clearly somebody that is
very well connected and has information. Well, he's built this army of loyal,
loyal subscribers to his you know, his scoop his feed and it's on
discord and you know he shares you know, good information on there. And
I don't know if there's like an agreement that if you're on the discord and
you pay for it, you know, you're not supposed to say anything,
but you know a lot of information ends up leaking out from there, which
maybe that's what they want, Maybe that's what you know, Maybe he doesn't
mind that at all, because again, they are paying to be on that
on that discord. And for those who know what a discord is, it's
like a it's like a it's a platform that I that I'd say is is
like a thread. It's like a thread platform. Are you do you know
what discord is at all? Am I streaming? And I think there may
be other uses for it other than what you're talking about, But I do
believe that that is one of the things you can use it for. Yeah,
I know, you can use it like a chat room. It's like
a live chat room. It's an instant messaging vo IP social platform which allows
communication. So I guess you can like call people on discord. I didn't
know that group, so yeah, I guess it's used for a variety of
things. But what he's using it for here is that you pay to get
access to you know, that big group, and there's like different threads for
each team, and you know there's a ton of fans. I mean,
this guy isn't just you know, building up his following on Twitter by being
anonymous yet proving to have really good information about what's going on in college basketball.
He's now created a business with it because I don't know what it costs,
but like even if it's just you know, six bucks or something a
month, I mean he has he has thousands upon thousands of people that are
doing that, which is actually a cool story, to be honest with you.
But anyways, there's information everywhere. In fact that has made it a
little bit more difficult for me to actually get anop you know, get a
real update, right, Like I know, Jody Dimling does a great job
and he updates, you know as best he can on all things. U
of L didn't with basketball for a while, and I think it was pretty
obvious as to why, just because you know, that was a whole mess.
But it's just hard to keep up with. So there's a long wind
away of me saying Ben hum Riches, who again probably not even saying his
name correctly. You know, I'd never even heard of this guy, didn't
know he was transferring. I knew nothing about him. And then sure enough
people see him in a picture with one of the other visitors and realized,
wait a second, that's you know, that's that's the guy from Evansville.
So I think he started his career at NAI school, yeah, Huntington,
Indiana, and he ended up actually having better numbers at Evansville than he did
when he was at the NAI level. So this past year at Evansville averaged
fourteen point seven points four point seven board shout at about fifty percent from three.
Again, he's a big guy, six' eleven, so no clue
if he's somebody that they're really targeting and they want. But he visited,
so I would. I guess that tells you there's clearly some interest on both
sides. But see if I missed anybody else. As far as just names
that we've been talking about for quite some time. Nick Boyd, who visited
not this pastpeaking but the weekend before he was from FA he has decided to
go to San Diego State, And yeah, I guess. I mean,
there's still others that they're you know, they're pursuing. And heck, there's
probably guys that aren't even in the portal yet that a lot of schools,
including Louisville know are about to hit the portal. So you know, we're
starving for updates because we're just excited that there's a new era here for Louisville
basketball. But there's so many moving parts, more so than I can ever
remember when it comes to, you know, the off season coverage of a
team, because it's brand new. But I also feel like this day,
I mean, you know, you see somebody on Twitter post something that's like
news, right like this, For example, I saw something over the weekend
that this may be true, but the what's the guy's name, John L.
Davis, who's transferred from FAU. You know, I saw somebody tweet
out that he cannot get into Michigan academically, which really wouldn't be a shock
because they've had issues with that before. But I just have never seen so
many meat, which I'm gonna call them that and not call them the reports
because it's their tweets on a social media platform with no I mean it's not
really you know. Anyways, that's a different conversation for a different day.
But either way, like everybody shares it, and nobody seems to really know
if like, I don't think anybody truly knows what the hell's going on with
anything right now, recruiting, portal, all that stuff. So I feel
helpless because you know, there are some that don't have the time or even
interest in getting on something called a discord or a message board or you know
the toxicity that is Twitter. But it's been toughing, you know. I
think I've given it as about as good of an update as I can,
as far as you know, who's visited recently and you know which direction they're
leaning. I don't think anybody knows, but despite they're being you know,
roughly ten transfers that have visited since Pat Kelsey took the job. And these
are guys that have played college basketball for some two or three years, maybe
even longer, and they're gonna you know, those are guys that could probably
help you more so right away. But the one name that everybody's wanting to
know what's going on with is Jayden Quantits. We talked about him all last
week. He's a five star top ten player, former Kentucky commit who decommitted
when Cal left for Arkansas. And now he's visited Louisville and he left and
you know, didn't commit, and he's gonna be visiting Arkansas. I think
he may visit Memphis. And there are again reports really just tweets from Rando's
that say the asking price is one to two million dollars and everybody just thinks
that's for sure the truth. And I'm not. I don't mean I shouldn't
be so skeptical of everything, but like one of the things that nobody seems
to ever really question, where would somebody get that information? Like who?
Like how would how would somebody know that that's not public information at all?
Nobody if you're on the side of Jaden quaintance, his agent, his family,
whoever it is, and you are on the side of, you know,
a school that wants him that kind of knows financially, what would maybe
what would be needed to make that happen. Neither side benefits at all if
that's just publicly out there. So I think it's all made up. I
really do. Now, is it going to cost a lot of money to
get him? Absolutely, But like people just run with numbers, and you
know, I think you're just making it up. I mean maybe I'm wrong,
Like you know, maybe maybe that is two million dollars from from Arkansas
and Jerry Jones is going to get this kid. But I still believe that
the number we hear for a lot of players is extremely exaggerated. And it's
because again, if you're the player and the numbers three hundred thousand dollars more
than what you're actually gonna get, it makes you look better, you look
more valuable. And if you're the school that's getting set player, it looks
like you got all the money and you'll spend it. So there is no
real update on Jaden Quaintan's other than he's visited Louisville. His visit went well.
In fact, I'll read you really quickly hear what he had to say
about his visit, because he did talk to Adam Zagoria and quote, it
was fun. I like the facilities, the people there were really nice.
It was cool. It was good. And then he was asked about what
message from Kelsey and his staff, what message they had for him as far
as how he'll be utilized if he was to come to Louisville, and he
goes on to say, they kind of let me pick and pop, bring
the ball up the court, just kind of expand my game, show my
versatility a little bit more. And then he was asked about other visits and
he said, yeah, I'm going to go visit Arkansas, and I think
I have a visit also planned to Memphis. So that's really not much of
an update, to be honest with you, I'm not faulting the kid for
anything he said there, but you know, that's not much of an update
at all. So now he wait, I always felt like Arkansas was going
to be the most likely landing spot because he was already committed to Cal But
you know, sounds like Pat Kelsey made quite an impression, and now you
just have to hope that, you know, maybe Louisville's bag is bigger than
everybody else's, which it probably won't be. But I think with freshman,
now, what you're gonna see is who's willing to pay that much for a
kid because when you're going out and paying half a million for a transfer,
you're paying for a grown man. You're paying for a guy who, like
is probably as good as he's gonna get. But he's good, right he'll
make an impact with freshmen, it's totally different, and freshman right now,
no matter where you're ranked, do not have the value that transfers do.
But again, this is a guy who potentially could be the number One pick
in a couple of years. And I mean, I wouldn't be shocked if
wherever he ends up, he's one of those rare freshmen that does play a
lot and have and make an impact for you because he's you know, he's
that gifted. So no update, But I mean, Louisville will probably not
get him just because again I assume it's going to be Arkansas. But I
won't look at this. I mean, I still think just given the timing,
given the situation, just getting this kid on campus for a visit,
it wasn't like a power move by Pat Kelsey. But I think it's a
good sign. And I'm saying that as a fan who you know, First
of all, I like the fact that he was even willing to swing there
and say, hey, you know, I'm probably, I'm sure though two
have never met, but hey, I know you've reopened your recruitment. I'd
love to come talk to you. I'd love for you to come visit us.
And he did it, so you know, we'll see what happens.
Also, the last part of this quote, I was getting ready to close
out this tab here at zagsblog dot com, and he says, John,
I think I have a Memphis visit also planned that that just tells me that,
like this kid's just along for the ride, Like he's not schedule,
he's yeah, he's got handlers, he's probably and he's got an agent.
I'm sure, because you can have agents now and maintain your eligibility. So
you know, I mean, do you really think he's the one making the
decision? I mean it sounds crazy to say, and I don't believe for
a second, like he has no impact, But like it also wouldn't shock
me just given how much of this is clearly turned into a big, big
business thing. It's it's one thousand percent all transactional at this point. So
like it wouldn't shock me if like he has you know, and maybe his
maybe his handlers his agent, his mentor whatever. I don't know anything about
his situation personally, but like maybe it's his father. I don't know,
But like I could also see like them just telling him where he's gonna go
to school and he's like, all right, let's do it. I mean,
I just can't imagine. I don't mean it sounds so cynical, but
like that wouldn't shock me at all. I mean, he's sixteen years old
right now. Man, he's not even an adult. He's never done anything
like this before in his life. Obviously it's his goal to be in the
NBA and do stuff like this, but it's it's it's a lot for somebody
at that age. Sure, absolutely so I think each day that passes,
Louisville fans will just assume that he's not coming here. But I'm gonna go
and let you know, I'll have no update, right, Like I'm not
connected here to get any kind of scoop on this kid. But I'm not
just going to assume there's no chance because you know, and look, I
don't want to act as if what a few people on Twitter are doing as
far as being impatient. I mean, I don't think that represents even a
tiny percent of each of the fan base. It's just it's just a few
people. But there does seem to be a little bit of a sense that
like if a kid visited and didn't commit within twenty four hours, he must
have hated that place. That when did that change? That? Maybe that
changed whenever Louisville. You know, we didn't really care about recruiting a whole
lot because we knew no matter who we got as player, as far as
talent, it didn't matter because we had a lousy staff. But I still
am of the belief that a guy visiting and then even visiting other schools doesn't
mean you can't get him. But we'll see. All right, quick break,
we'll come back on the other side. Keep it rolling along here.
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All right, so I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the floor here,
John. You sent me a message about what how it's pronounced for that guy
from Evansville. Yeah, but it still looks hard to say yes, like
even seeing that like huck humbrick House, Yeah, humbrack house, humberk House,
humbrack house. Okay, that. Yeah, that that now that I'm
looking at the spelling of it, like humbrick House, Ben humbrick House,
just say it's still tough to say that. It just sounds sounds like a
made up name. But you know he is a real person and he visited
Louisville and there was photo proof of it. Not sure if he's going to
be somebody they end up, you know, uh landing or not. But
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five three zero seven ninety. That is the number if you want to text
in on the Ellen and Federal Credit Union text line. We'll get to this
one later, but this says, is Mark Pope the first coach to ever
drive a recruit to the airport. I'm not sure if anybody saw that on
social media, but I do want to reset that later because apparently Pope has
been taking the visitors to the players visiting Kentucky to potentially go play for him.
He's been he's been picking them up from the airport and driving them to
the airport when they leave. And you know that just became a big talking
point on the internet earlier. He's a chauffeur. Now yeah, so yeah,
we'll get to that later. But this text says, Nick, do
you think it's weird that so many of the guys that have transferred out of
Louisville haven't found the New school yet? You know, I would say that
the the guys that have transferred out, I mean who I mean, Brandon
Hilly Hatfield we know he's going to NC State, Trey White is at Illinois,
and Skytt Clark is at UCLA. Mike James, you know, I
did say last week I think there was a chance he could come back,
and I guess they're technically is still a chance, but it does sound like
he may follow Brandon Huntley Hatfield to n C State and go play for Kevin
Keats. And you know, Tyler Johnson, I haven't heard much. I
mean, I'm sure he's got options. Curtis Williams junior over the weekend committed
to Georgetown. So look, a lot of these guys have picked schools,
but you know, Caleb Glenn, Dennis Evans, Danilo Gavanovich, Manuelo Cora
for you know, I'll be honest with you, those are probably guys that
are going to be going to a lower level than where they were here at
Louisville. Maybe I'm wrong, but that just those recruitments, you know,
those aren't. To be honest with you, I actually think, you know,
Tyler is different. And I'm not sure why there hasn't been a whole
lot of updates on his situation because I would assume he has a lot of
options. But you know, I think Caleb has a lot of upside.
Really love Caleb. Glenn wished you would have stuck around. Obviously, Dinnis
seven situations you a little unique. But you know, if you're a former
four star recruit like Caleb, who I think could be a really good player
in a lot of places, including the level if he stayed here. But
I just feel like that's a guy that is not being highly prioritized by other
top programs because I feel like, more often than not, when you've got
power programs that are trying to fill four or five spots, maybe just three
spots, depending on what the roster looks like, they're not looking to go
get somebody that can develop over time. They're probably looking to go get players
who I don't want to say, or as good as they're going to get,
but maybe close to it, and you know exactly what you're getting,
and they fill that exact spot. So I'm sure all these guys will land
somewhere and they've got plenty of time. All right, we got one hour
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