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Pat Kelsey, he brought a couple of players with him from Charleston, and
we talked about those guys earlier in the week and the expectation was that those
were the only two guys that would end up following him, and I'd still
say that's the case as far as Charleston guy's transferring to Louisville. But the
first player to commit to Pat Kelsey here at Louisville, I think it's fair
to say that it is Terrence Edwards Junior, who goes by that name FATS,
who's the Sun Belt player of the Year out of James Madison had a
phenomenal year. Again, one League Player of the Year for a team that
was really good thirty two and four is what James Madison was this year.
So when I say, it's safe to say and fair to say he's the
first to commit, because you know, the guys who committed to Pat Kelcey
that were already in the mix, the guys from Charleston, they committed to
him at Charleston and just followed him. This is somebody that you know is
all in seemingly because it became official earlier today that he is. He's in
the mix, he's in the fold. He's he's going to be a Louis
of a Cardinal, which is which is great. I mean, really good
player would be a good addition for anybody. I mean right now, there'll
be more players that do hit the portal once the season comes to an end.
In fact, today's the day where I just feel like, man,
it's heavy as far as just trying to keep up with all these guys that
have I guess formal become available in the portal. Some of them announced that
they're going to do it, others, I guess don't make it public until
they're officially available, and ready to you know, able to be contacted.
But right now the top ten according to the Athletic as far as players in
the portal, Terrence Edwards was number eight and he's now committed to Louisville.
So a lot more scholarships to uh to give out, a lot a lot
of pieces that need to be added for this roster to come together. And
uh, Pat Kelsey's hard at work. He just took off from a chartered
flight out of the Louisville area here and is hitting the road to go talk
to a couple of a couple of transfers. I think right now, uh,
if you you know, if you follow the flight tracker information that's been
shared on Twitter, which you know, I don't. I wouldn't even know
how to access that, but I know people can do it, and that
kind of I was reminded what that what that whole thing is like whenever we
went through the coaching searched, you know, to try to to try to
figure out, uh, you know, who was flying into Louisville or where
who was flying out of Louisville maybe to go talk to coaches, meaning you
know, Josh Herd and what not. But anyways, right now, the
belief is that the flight to Toledo is to go and talk to a player
that we know Louisville is already in the mix for, and that is Dante
Maddox Junior, who averaged about fifteen points a game last year at Toledo,
was one of the better players in the MAC and Louisville's one of six schools
he's considering. And I'd say that flight that Pat Kelsey's on to Toledo is
I don't think it's a coincidence. I think it's probably to go talk to
this young man and make the pitch. And then he's also going to be
leaving there to go to Boca Raton, which is where FAU is and they've
got a bunch of guys in the portal, and obviously the expectation is that
most of those guys end up following Dusty Maye to Michigan. However, you
got to keep in mind Michigan's not an easy school to transfer to, right
There's I mean there's many instances in the last few years of guys that wanted
to go but couldn't get in because of that. I mean, apparently it's
a really hard school to transfer or two. It's not a hard school to
get in, but it's it's hard to transfer to and they don't apparently have
a whole lot of nil money, which you know, Michigan's got one of
the biggest fan bases in the country and they do care about basketball. But
I just think in a weird way because football is on top right now,
they're coming off a national championship. I just I don't know, it's I
think that's another reason as to why Michigan had such a bad year, and
yet a lot of people didn't even really seem to notice it. And I'm
being serious. I mean that's you know, I got to be honest.
It took like every every so often. Here's how I would remember. I
mean, I knew they weren't having a good year, and a k new
Juwan Howard could potentially, you know, lose his job. But you know,
I would go look at Power five standings to see, you know,
who else is as bad as Louisville as far as overall wins, And sure
enough, I'm pretty sure Michigan had the same amount of wins this year as
Louisville. I think it was just eight. So you know, I think
there's a lot of schools that you would just expect to do really well in
NIL and you know, surprisingly they don't. And maybe it's because they don't
have a great collective like Louisville does with the five OO two circle. Maybe
they just don't have high level boosters, uh in donors like Louisville has with
Rick Kieber, who's putting up a million dollars, which is crazy to think
about. And that's that doesn't even include all the money he gives U of
l as far as just his his support. I mean, right, there's
a reason that the Green Lot it's now the Purple Lot, the Planet Fitness
Lot because of Rick Heber and his his his his companies and glow brands.
So exciting times, no doubt, I think. I think, uh Michigan
basketball is such like a strange situation because it's not like they have a very
bad they don't they have a historic basketball problem. They've been good. It
all means, you know, they had a lot more heartbreak. They have
what like six times they've been runner up and only won like one title.
And some may even say that that was a fluke and even the made the
whole, the whole fab five that never even you know, that never even
got it accomplished. It's just that the football is always like overshadowed it and
it and that's that's just always wild to me. Is it doesn't seem like
they care too much about it. It's weird, isn't it. While that
Dusty may like want like that's what he wanted, I mean, everybody's got
their own preferences, but like the fact that like it's such a secondary thing
to football is what attracted him to Michigan, among other things obviously, and
that just I mean, that's gonna make it harder for you to get players
in then IL. Like I think that is there's no doubt Louisville's always going
to be a good job. I mean, in fact, a great job.
But in this new world now where nil is so important, being at
a school where basketball is historically your top dog, and there is a level
of because again, I know people love Louisville football with Jeff brom here,
and I don't think any Louisville fans take him for granted. I mean,
ten wins in year one, I mean, the guy's been phenomenal. And
here's to hope and they can have another great season this upcoming year. But
Louisville football, you know, they were just kind of cutting their teeth as
a program, really becoming I wouldn't even say relevant, but just you know,
having some level of footing in the hierarchy of college football by that when
and that was going on when they were kind of breaking in, as I
mentioned, cutting their teeth level, it already won a couple of national championships,
and it you know, with seventies and eighties, Dinny Crumb put us
on the map. So it's not as if people say, oh, yeah,
football's cool, but I love basketball. What it comes down to is
that you know, your dad and your grandpa even like Louisville football was kind
of just a cool thing that like never really mattered at a high level at
all when basketball was becoming one of the more known and respected brands in the
sport. So I try to explain that as best I can, and I
don't know if I ever actually convey what I'm trying to say. But it's
not as if we don't like football just as much. It's just the level
of passion and just I guess craziness is different because it's relatively new compared to
all, like, that's one of the things about lovel football that that I
think is a compliment, Like we got put in the microwave man, like
we were playing in a baseball stadium, you know, not that long ago
in the grand scheme of things, and didn't really have I mean, heck,
we were almost kicked out a Conference USA because of football and just the
lack of resources there, and I mean it was just such a secondary thing
compared to basketball. And you know, here we are now where I mean,
Jeff brom just finished in the top fifteen and Louisville's had BCS Bowl wins
they've had. I mean, heck, a playoff appearance is not the outside
of the question, just given the fact that they're coming off of a ten
win season in the playoffs now at twelve. So anyways, my point is
this, but like basketball, it's I never want to say, well,
hey, basketball is you know, I'll do that. I'll just say this.
Josh Hurt said it a few weeks ago when he fired Kenny Payne.
Louisville basketball. The basketball program at the University of Louisville on the men's side
is really the light. And I'm paraphrasing, I don't. I don't have
the quote in front of me, but you heard what he said. We
all know it. It's the lifeblood of the University of Louisville and the athletics
department, and it's a huge component to this city of Louisville as well.
So that is why you're able to see this amount of money that's been raised.
Again, fans have collectively chipped in over half of a million dollars in
what five days, three days since they launched this campaign. I mean,
that doesn't happen in most places. And collectives are just a part of it.
I mean, they're a big part of it as far as nil money,
but there are others that donate. You know, for example, like
when Oscar shi Way got the bag after winning National Player of the Year at
Kentucky, I'm pretty sure the money he got wasn't from like a specific collective.
It was probably from you know people, I guess collectively, you know,
not not fan driven collective, but you know people who were just willing
to put up money and you know, give him a deal with this company
or that company that this person owns. So you know, there's different ways
you can do it. For example, Kenny Payne had nil resources for players
that were just on this team this year, but it was private in IL,
like Kenny had people with money that I guess helped WITHINIL directly. And
that's why you know he left six figures worth of money in the collective five
OO two circle collective, I should say that was available for men's basketball that
just went unused. So there's different ways to do it. So I don't
want to act like like, hey, this collective they stink. Look at
the money they're raising compared to Louisville, because you can do it. You
can have resources available that aren't public through a crowdsourcing, you know, fundraising
campaign. But it is wild for me to see that the La Familia Kentucky
nil that is what was announced I believe right before their season kind of came
crumbling down, and it's you know, you can go and donate and sign
up just like you can at the five ZHO two circle. But right now
they have a goal of a million dollars. They have forty nine thousand,
eight hundred and twelve dollars pony up exactly. I mean, that's put it
on a shirt, right Like Cal's gonna have to go to Stoops's bag and
say, look, man, I guess I'm gonna have to tell them the
pony up like you did, because again, I don't want to insinuate that
that's the only money that little of the Kentucky basketball has available for an il
because look, they've got they got they in the grand scheme of things.
Wouldn't shock me as if, you know, if they couldn't compete with anybody,
because it's Kentucky basketball, let's be real. But just the optics of
that looking side by side, they're again fans of Kentucky can go sign up
right now and donate money, and there's been four hundred and eighty seven people
that have done it, and that total is at forty eight hundred and twelve
dollars. As I just mentioned Dan Furman at the five to two circle,
he's the president, you know, he just announced earlier today, and who
knows where it's at now, right I would say the addition of the Sun
Belt Player of the Year might incentivize others to start putting in more money.
Okay, this is where my money's going. Let's keep it rolling, baby,
Let's go get you know, let's go get the Mountain West player.
Of the year something like that. But they've they've raised over five hundred thousand
dollars the five to two circle has compared to fifty thousand roughly from UK.
That's not to say again that Louisville has that much more money overall available,
because again that's why I laid out there are other ways in which you can
bring in in a ale money. But Michigan, I'm gonna pull up their
social media. They're collective because Dusty May. There's some kind of a slogan
and campaign they're doing to raise money, like you know, they're they're hoping
to get one hundred thousand dollars like buy you know, within a few weeks
or something, which again just seems very measily compared to what Louisville's doing here.
And again you have to understand this one hundred thousand dollars that rick or
sorry, this five hundred thousand dollars that Louisville is on pace with right now.
And again, what they're hope for those who don't know the the the
campaign here that's going on, rick Keeper is going to match and give a
million dollars when the fans collectively have a million dollars raised and they're already again
half more than halfway there in just a few days. So that's awesome to
have that money available to go help you build this roster. But that's not
the only way they're going to have NIL money, right Like, There'll be
people that are that are helping with NIL that aren't doing it do the collective
specifically, and you know people outside of Rick Keeber that have the ability to
do that on behalf of their companies that are very successful. So I don't
think we'll ever have full transparency to know exactly who is the top dog in
NIL, because again, it's just I think impossible to know. But I
think it's safe to say Louisville right now is really showing and it's getting national
intention You're seeing right ups at twenty four seven Sports, You're seeing write ups
at on three Sports about how Louisville just is really kind of, you know,
showing off essentially as far as the ability they have to raise money.
And we all know that that matters right now. But this is something that
interested me. Maybe it doesn't interest you, but I'll share it with you
really quickly here because I know at times just nerding out on numbers and collectives
and all that kind of stuff. Maybe it's not that interesting and it certainly
doesn't seem to be that entertaining, but hey, we all know that it
matters right now. But this is from somebody who covers college basketball High major
Scoop is the outlet here, But this is just some nil perspective here.
It says middle of the road ACC program has a roster budget in college basketball
with nil around one and a half million dollars. Dayton. They are a
unique program that has not a great history as far as championship in final fours,
but clearly they have. They're a basketball school. I mean that's they
don't you know theyir football school. I don't even know that. I think
they're fcs. They have one point four million, So again that's probably towards
the top in the Atlantic ten. And you know, to hear that Dayton,
and who would you say is a middle of the pack basketball school in
the ACC historically speaking like fan interest energy, was it maybe Virginia Tech?
You think they'd be fair? Yeah, I'd probably say Virginia Tech. So
to hear Virginia Tech and Dayton have the same level essentially of nil money doesn't
really surprise me. But what really interests me is the lower level schools.
Right. So apparently Youngstown State they were just in there. They're in the
Horizon They are believed to be the top dog in IL in that conference,
the Horizon League. They had a three hundred and fifty thousand dollars roster budget
for men's basketball. So again, like that's probably not surprising, right,
A much different level than you see at Dayton or a middle of the pack
acc So again, that's not like surprising news that just stands out, But
just you know, it's a new world and I can't help but be interested
in all this, you know, all the money that that that's you know,
that's you know, being put up. I mean again, we've had
plenty of people over the last few days that have chimed in on their thoughts
and they just hate that. You know, you pay this much money for
st for season tickets and donations, and clearly if you have a good you
know, good job, good career, you know you're you're not well off,
you're not rich, but you know you aren't struggling because if you're struggling,
you couldn't afford that. So it is hard earned money, and I
get that it may just kind of rub you the wrong way to know that
they're now saying, hey, we need your help, we need your support,
whenever you already do support them by again not only paying for season tickets,
but the donation that goes with it, just so you can have season
tickets. But look this, we're never going back like this. If you
want, if you want Louisville to be good, Nil is going to need
to be in a good place. And for those of you that are against
that, if you know, texted in and whatnot, nobody's forcing you,
nobody's telling you you're a bad fan if you don't do it. And look,
you chose not to do it, and others are doing it. And
Louis's in great shape. So I know that it's going to just be,
you know, something that fans don't some fans don't like to hear, and
it just kind of rubs them the wrong way. But at the end of
the day, like Louisville didn't like, louisll didn't create this, right,
this is this is how things have evolved in college athletics, and if you
want to be successful, you have to excel in this area, and it's
happening. So, like, I see it from both sides, right,
Like I understand those who say, look, if we really want to win,
you better give money, and I get those that say, I already
give them enough money. They can find other people to give them money to,
you know, get players. That's not my responsibility. Like, I
see both sides of it. But at the end of the day, this
is never changing. This is now something that we know is very important,
and I'm just happy to know that there are Like this is probably the of
all the of all the things that have transpired in the last couple of years
with loisll basketball, with them just you know, being at a level we
never thought as far as just that bad. We've always kind of deep down
known that this is temporary. And despite you know, four thousand people at
the UM Center, we still have a passionate fan base that cares, you
know, like no other. And I talked about it here and there throughout
the postgame shows this past year. The amount of people who not only care,
but the level of care that they have, the emotional investment they have
into Louisville basketball. You can't buy that you can. And I think we've
always known that, but I think seeing the amount of money that fans have
put together just in the last few days is really the ultimate reminder and I
guess proof more than anything that, yeah, we are different than most.
And I know there's a school up the road in Lexington that has maybe one
of the biggest fan bases you'll find, and they've got a lot. I
mean, so it's not like I'm claiming Louisville as the top dog and they're
going to pass everybody else. But you know, I don't think you'll find
a college basketball program in the country right now that you know, has more
momentum that is very visible for people to see when it comes to nil.
And that's a good thing. It's a good thing. I talked about it
yesterday, right Tom Jurich for those who missed me bringing this up. Tom
Jurich, he overpaid for coaches. He gave extensions and raises when they weren't
necessarily wanted, you know why, because he wanted it to be part of
the brand. We will pay top dollar at Louisville because that's how much we
care. And I think fans are kind of doing that right now. So
it's just, you know, there's multiple different benefits to this whole thing,
and one of them is just it being out there that Louisville man, they
got money and that's a good thing. All right, let's take a quick
break. We'll come back on the other side, talk a little more about
the final four matchups that were just a few days away from some really crazy
numbers that tell you that NCAA tournament worship is a monster. And who knows
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that's right, coffee and Company rolling along here on a Wednesday afternoon. I
was about to say, a beautiful Wednesday, but I don't know. I
haven't looked outside in many hours, and it changes all the time. I
mean, I know it's colder than it has been recently, and I know
yesterday we had some crazy storms and I was of the belief that we were
supposed to get some more bad weather tonight. But you know, I could
be completely wrong, because you know, it changes all the time, and
sometimes they're just wrong about what they predict. But it does look like it's
still pretty cold. But as far as like storms, I guess it's mostly
going to be the chances of that are more overnight, like around midnight.
But yeah, yesterday, I mean some of the pictures of the damage and
whatnot, I mean there was a real tornado in Oldham County. I mean
I think that had happened as soon as we ended up, you know,
coming back to in the show yesterday, I mean the level of wind was
knocking vehicles over. I mean, that's just it's crazy, crazy stuff.
So hopefully everybody stayed safe. Hopefully if you lost power, you were able
to get your electricity back. I have one quick question, and this is
pretending to tornadoes in Louisville. See. I grew up in Louisville about twenty
years ago. I lived here for about a year and a half, and
I was always scared of natural disasters like tornadoes and stuff. But people have
always told me, like it, tornado hasn't hit Louisville in this long It's
never gonna happen. It's a big city. The crosswinds just don't work.
So for the longest time, I've always pooh pooed tornadoes in this area.
Was that just me? Or is that like a Louisville thing? Yeah,
I mean I think it may not just be a Louisville thing, But I
think there's a lot of folks who, you know, are just of the
belief that the the warnings about some crazy potential weather. I mean, it
really can be just view as you know, they it could happen, and
therefore they're warning people, you know, better safe than sorry. But then
there's also the other level, which you know, I don't I try not
to go there because I'm somebody that you know, technically I guess is in
the media, but I'm well aware that like it's good for their business if
people are locked into their product on the news talking about some potential weather.
So I think you're there. You know, there's clearly going to be a
level of Okay, you know, we've heard it before, it'll probably be
something, but nowhere near as as you know, as disastrous as you know
they're telling us it could be, which you know, doesn't mean that they're
wrong in warning us. You know that that's their job. But I think
the level of of the fear that is that is put out there is a
little much. But I'd answer the question about saying this Austin as someone who
lived here when they did get some crazy tornadoes. I mean, there was
a tenety that came right through where where I grew up and still kind of
live close to to this day, and it wiped out, you know,
a whole neighborhood. I think it happened maybe in April, maybe early May,
but I'll remember as we didn't finish school that year because school the school,
I think the roof was pulled off the school. So that made it
to where for a while you just you know, you knew, you witnessed
that it could happen and what it could do. So whenever there was fear,
you know, I shouldn't say fear they were whenever they were telling us
about some severe weather along the way, I think there was a clear fea
there was a different level of fear knowing that it did in fact happen and
you know, made it real, I guess. But when you were in
Arizona, when you when you spent a lot of your childhood out there,
like I mean, what kind of weather warnings did you guys get there was
because you don't get snow right, No, there's no snowe I will say
it snowed a couple of times when I lived in Arizona, oddly enough,
around like the like around Easter time. I don't know why, but there's
a couple of times. And thank goodness, even though it's a sprinkle that's
gone and literally like an hour, they've closed schools for it, just so
you know, let everyone have some fun with snows and snow and Arizona.
But dust storms, I guess was prob at the most. That's something I
can't relate to, but I'm sure it's pretty serious. Middle of a dust
storm and I saw it coming from about ten miles away, and I was,
you know, just kind of see that happen. I was outside at
a park with my dad. We were helping cleaning up something, and just
before you know what, everything is just dusty, sandy. I could not
see my own I couldn't even see my own palm in front of my face
for like at least ten fifteen seconds before it passed. That was one of
one of the scariest things I think I've ever been apart, Well, does
that is that kind of like a mini tornado instead of it just being like
you know wind, it's I guess you basically calls yeah, it's it's it's
not necessarily like a cyclone and it's blowing off roofs of houses. You just
have tiny particles of millions of particles of sand flying at you really really fast,
and that's that's never really good. How many years did you spend in
Arizona? Twenty years? What do you miss the most here? When I
was twenty, is there something about the that you missed the most? Well,
you know what I was. I was. I was a little kid
then, so I didn't I didn't really understand the setting, you know,
like the the mountain ranges and the succulence if you will, you know,
like the like the cactus and it's just kind of like a beautiful land out
there. You have. I've been to I've been to Arizona once and I
instantly thought to myself, I know why people retire here. That's as I
moved away, I now completely understand. I wasn't old enough to go to
like the casinos, to really have like fun time. It was. I
lived on a military base. It was more of like an enclosed city inside
of another city, so there really wasn't all that much to do. So
yeah, I I've got such the itch to travel. I don't have any
any trips planned other than our annual destined trip that we take in August as
a family. And I've just got the itch to get out and you book
a flight and just go explore, go to a new city. And I
mean, I'm not just gonna do it just to do it. I want
to find something fun, make it work, and you know, but yeah,
this is this is this is a good problem for me to have.
But I have a ton of vacation now because I've been here so long,
which, by the way, shout out to Austin. He's been at iHeart
five years now go so I I'll be I guess it's eight years for me.
And because of the comp days and just the overall you know, structured
vacation that I get, I have. I mean, we're already a court
you know, we're already one fourth of the way through the year twenty twenty
four, which is crazy to say out loud, but it's true. And
literally, April, I've got like a ton of days. I got a
user lose, so I'll figure something out, uh, and it's probably gonna
be where I'll just end up doing a lot of kind of some random Thursday
Monday kind of thing just to make it a long weekend. But you know,
last year there were three different trips that I took where I was gone
almost a whole I think I was gone for three straight not three straight weeks,
but three different instances I was gone for a full week. And that's
like, never good for this, just because you know, that's a lot
of time away. So I'll probably just do it much differently this time around,
where instead of just taking a week here in a week in this month,
it'll be kind of spread out. But yes, like you fit like
a Western vibe. I could see you in like a little little little ten
gallon and a big big belt buckle. You never watch a movie Tombstone,
you know Kurt Russell, and I'm familiar with it, but I haven't watched
filmer. You know the story of Wyatt Arp and Doc Holiday Like it's when
you talk about old Western you think me, right, that's what you're saying
exactly. Talk about old Western shootouts like it. You think of Tombstone,
Arizona and that was like that that that was like an attraction a little bit
south of Tucson, like almost a little bit north of where the border of
Mexico was. But that was where it was like an old fashioned town.
And it's still like an attraction town that people you know, walking around in
old western garb and they challenge each other to duels and that blanks and like
shootouts' experience. Oh it's awesome. And once again as a kid, I
hated it. I hated going down there. That's where we didn't understand the
rarity of it, like that. It was something that like you can't really
get elsewhere, right, Yeah, And and now it's you know you talk
about fun old brothels right that are like haunted that you could take a ghost
tours through. It's it's really fun. I could totally see you in the
coffee family just there. You can see what some west right, Yeah,
yeah, absolutely. Let me ask you this, do you have a do
you have a bucket list? Maybe not a destination like a trip like a
journey. Like The reason I ask is because when I turned thirty, I
was dead set on wanting to do this and my wife, you know,
I'll blame her. You know, she told me she'd never do it with
me, and then kind of like, you know, I guess talked me
out of it. But I wanted to when I turned thirty. For my
thirtieth birthday that summer, I wanted to take a week and rent a car
and drive across the country and you know, stop here and there along the
way, you know, maybe spend six hours in the car this day,
do five hours the next day. And I'll probably have to spend a couple
of days doing longer trips than that just to kind of make it. And
then what I would do is rent a car and then just fly back whenever
I got you know, when I got to it, Like I guess,
my last destination rather that be whether that be you know, whether that be
Vegas or whatever or LA, I'm not sure, and I still want to
do that. I don't think i'd be able to do it, you know,
I mean driving kind of guy. You can you sit in there?
Oh yeah, well so I can. I can. I can drive.
But it'll put it this way, it would because that trip would be broken
up. I would I'd be fine with it, but if i'm you know,
if if there's a if there's a trip that's going to be a you
know, over ten hours, I'm going to try to find a flight.
There's no way around it, just because I just that, you know,
if it's just a straight trip, that just to me seeing well, and
also you got to be you know, you know, got to consider I
have two children, and I now know, like, hey, long car
rides with with with those two little ones, you know it it's just not
fun. Yeah, exactly exactly. So once we did a trip where we
took the family vacation and we did the flight rather than driving. It was
kind of one of those things we we'll never not do that again. And
even you know, we still had some you know, just kids being in
an airport all, you know, for for you know hours, it's never
fun. But you know you're in the air for an hour and a half,
right instead of being in the car for you know, ten hours.
Because even if the if the destination is roughly seven to eight hours away,
with two little ones, you're stopping a lot more than you typically would,
not just to use the restroom, but probably to eat because you know,
you just need to get him out of the car. So, yeah,
as you were talking about your West coast, your West coast past. It
just hit me that, man, I'm feeding for a trip. You see,
Domestically, I really don't have any like I like to maybe go check
out like Big Sky Country, maybe Montana, but I always I like the
Florida. I've been to California, and I love New York. It's one
of my favorite places on Earth. And as far as like living in Arizona,
I think I made that trip nick driving like literally three or four times
in my life. I've driven from Arizona to Kentucky. Oh my goodness times.
And I hate the state of Texas because of it. You drive past
that Panhandle of Texas and it takes four ever and it's just literally nothing but
cows and flatlands. But yeah, Texas is like its own country. It
literally is. But I tell you what a place I'd probably love to spend
domestically, Oklahoma City. I think. I think Oklahoma is a beautiful,
like wide open state, So I think that that would be really cool to
go. I couldn't sell anybody on what would make that like a great place
to go. But that's what's kind of my my new fixation with traveling is
that like the unknown about it and yes, and knowing I've never been there
is what makes it would make it kind of a fun trip. I would
love to go to Greece though, if I ever had the opportunity, I
would love to go check out the Mediterranean. Yeah, I've seen some views
of Greece that make it look like maybe the most beautiful place on Earth.
So yeah, I gotta get I gotta get some traveling done before I need
to Actually, what I need to do is actually just plan something because I'm
a procrastinator. And what will happen is that, you know, maybe we're
on the show together again in three months and it's July, and I'm like,
you know what, man, I got to use this vacation and this
is when I need to use it, because taking time off during football and
basketball is not ideal. And I don't even want to write it because I
want to be here on the air and want to, you know, want
to. I mean, there's no better time for the show than that time.
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good vibes. No doubt if you are, I mean, I doubt you're
just now joining us. But it wouldn't shock me if we get to the
end of the week. And I know it's just a couple of days away,
but maybe there's another transfer that has decided to come and play for Pat
Kelsey here at Louisville. We did have somebody asked this question earlier, and
I don't know, you know, I don't I don't know for certain,
but I have a strong feeling that the College of Charleston big man that decided
to stay at at Charleston and play for Chris Mack and and not enter the
portal. I don't you know. Again, let's just be real here.
I think it was pretty telling when Pat Kelsey took the job that you know,
only two guys as of now have hit the portal that are that are
heading to Louisville, meaning you know, those guys that he played that played
for Pat Kelsey at Charleston. You know, I shouldn't speak for anybody that
because I have no clue what he thinks of these guys. Maybe they wanted
to stay or whatever. But like I think he knows that, you know,
he's going to utilize the resources here and go get players that are better
than the guys he had at Charleston. So for those kind of wondering,
did Chris Mack, you know, get the best of Kelsey, I mean,
I don't think so. I would imagine that that the big man Auntesrovzik
probably not saying that correctly. I would imagine him staying at at Charleston was
probably because, you know, one he wanted to and he probably wanted to
play for Chris Mack. But I don't get the feeling that Kelsey was urging
any any players other than those two that have already transferred to Louisville to to
follow him. All Right, so Yukon clearly looks like the best team in
the country. I mean, wouldn't be shocked if they win at all,
not just you know, with these two wins to win the national championship,
but like I wouldn't be shocked if like their average margin of victories like in
the twenties. I mean, hard to imagine them blowing out Purdue. But
then again, like I can't say we'd be that shocked. But here's Dan
Hurley with with Colin Cowherd yesterday and talking about how he's able to, you
know, stay under the radar and use it as as fuel. Actually,
never mind, we don't have time for that, do we. I just
realized what time is. I'm sorry, but it will play tomorrow. It's
not you know, it's not super time sensitive. But Yukon they're in a
weird spot because they can't claim that they're like the underdog or that that nobody
knows who they are, and they're being doubted. But I still believe there's
a lot there's teams that you know, would be in other conferences like the
ACC, the Big East, I'm sorry the Big ten and the SEC even
and there. I just think that there's a legitimacy to the fact that they
are not getting the same attention that other teams would do if they were doing
the same thing they're doing. Anyways, we're out of time. Talk to
you tomorrow right here on Sports Talk seven ninety