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day. Now here's Nick coffee.
All right, let's get it started,

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ladies and gentlemen. I mean,
the show started two hours ago, but

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afternoon, it is coffee and company
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Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate you
hanging out with us. Been a busy

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show, but a fun show and
some good vibes, no doubt. As

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Pat Kelsey, he brought a couple
of players with him from Charleston, and

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we talked about those guys earlier in
the week and the expectation was that those

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were the only two guys that would
end up following him, and I'd still

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say that's the case as far as
Charleston guy's transferring to Louisville. But the

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first player to commit to Pat Kelsey
here at Louisville, I think it's fair

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to say that it is Terrence Edwards
Junior, who goes by that name FATS,

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who's the Sun Belt player of the
Year out of James Madison had a

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phenomenal year. Again, one League
Player of the Year for a team that

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was really good thirty two and four
is what James Madison was this year.

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So when I say, it's safe
to say and fair to say he's the

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first to commit, because you know, the guys who committed to Pat Kelcey

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that were already in the mix,
the guys from Charleston, they committed to

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him at Charleston and just followed him. This is somebody that you know is

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all in seemingly because it became official
earlier today that he is. He's in

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the mix, he's in the fold. He's he's going to be a Louis

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of a Cardinal, which is which
is great. I mean, really good

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player would be a good addition for
anybody. I mean right now, there'll

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be more players that do hit the
portal once the season comes to an end.

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In fact, today's the day where
I just feel like, man,

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it's heavy as far as just trying
to keep up with all these guys that

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have I guess formal become available in
the portal. Some of them announced that

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they're going to do it, others, I guess don't make it public until

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they're officially available, and ready to
you know, able to be contacted.

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But right now the top ten according
to the Athletic as far as players in

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the portal, Terrence Edwards was number
eight and he's now committed to Louisville.

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So a lot more scholarships to uh
to give out, a lot a lot

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of pieces that need to be added
for this roster to come together. And

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uh, Pat Kelsey's hard at work. He just took off from a chartered

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flight out of the Louisville area here
and is hitting the road to go talk

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to a couple of a couple of
transfers. I think right now, uh,

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if you you know, if you
follow the flight tracker information that's been

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shared on Twitter, which you know, I don't. I wouldn't even know

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how to access that, but I
know people can do it, and that

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kind of I was reminded what that
what that whole thing is like whenever we

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went through the coaching searched, you
know, to try to to try to

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figure out, uh, you know, who was flying into Louisville or where

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who was flying out of Louisville maybe
to go talk to coaches, meaning you

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know, Josh Herd and what not. But anyways, right now, the

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belief is that the flight to Toledo
is to go and talk to a player

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that we know Louisville is already in
the mix for, and that is Dante

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Maddox Junior, who averaged about fifteen
points a game last year at Toledo,

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was one of the better players in
the MAC and Louisville's one of six schools

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he's considering. And I'd say that
flight that Pat Kelsey's on to Toledo is

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I don't think it's a coincidence.
I think it's probably to go talk to

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this young man and make the pitch. And then he's also going to be

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leaving there to go to Boca Raton, which is where FAU is and they've

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got a bunch of guys in the
portal, and obviously the expectation is that

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most of those guys end up following
Dusty Maye to Michigan. However, you

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got to keep in mind Michigan's not
an easy school to transfer to, right

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There's I mean there's many instances in
the last few years of guys that wanted

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to go but couldn't get in because
of that. I mean, apparently it's

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a really hard school to transfer or
two. It's not a hard school to

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get in, but it's it's hard
to transfer to and they don't apparently have

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a whole lot of nil money,
which you know, Michigan's got one of

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the biggest fan bases in the country
and they do care about basketball. But

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I just think in a weird way
because football is on top right now,

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they're coming off a national championship.
I just I don't know, it's I

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think that's another reason as to why
Michigan had such a bad year, and

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yet a lot of people didn't even
really seem to notice it. And I'm

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being serious. I mean that's you
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It took like every every so often. Here's how I would remember. I

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mean, I knew they weren't having
a good year, and a k new

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Juwan Howard could potentially, you know, lose his job. But you know,

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I would go look at Power five
standings to see, you know,

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who else is as bad as Louisville
as far as overall wins, And sure

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enough, I'm pretty sure Michigan had
the same amount of wins this year as

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Louisville. I think it was just
eight. So you know, I think

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there's a lot of schools that you
would just expect to do really well in

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NIL and you know, surprisingly they
don't. And maybe it's because they don't

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have a great collective like Louisville does
with the five OO two circle. Maybe

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they just don't have high level boosters, uh in donors like Louisville has with

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Rick Kieber, who's putting up a
million dollars, which is crazy to think

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about. And that's that doesn't even
include all the money he gives U of

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l as far as just his his
support. I mean, right, there's

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a reason that the Green Lot it's
now the Purple Lot, the Planet Fitness

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Lot because of Rick Heber and his
his his his companies and glow brands.

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So exciting times, no doubt,
I think. I think, uh Michigan

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basketball is such like a strange situation
because it's not like they have a very

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bad they don't they have a historic
basketball problem. They've been good. It

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all means, you know, they
had a lot more heartbreak. They have

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what like six times they've been runner
up and only won like one title.

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And some may even say that that
was a fluke and even the made the

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whole, the whole fab five that
never even you know, that never even

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got it accomplished. It's just that
the football is always like overshadowed it and

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it and that's that's just always wild
to me. Is it doesn't seem like

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they care too much about it.
It's weird, isn't it. While that

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Dusty may like want like that's what
he wanted, I mean, everybody's got

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their own preferences, but like the
fact that like it's such a secondary thing

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to football is what attracted him to
Michigan, among other things obviously, and

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that just I mean, that's gonna
make it harder for you to get players

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in then IL. Like I think
that is there's no doubt Louisville's always going

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to be a good job. I
mean, in fact, a great job.

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But in this new world now where
nil is so important, being at

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a school where basketball is historically your
top dog, and there is a level

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of because again, I know people
love Louisville football with Jeff brom here,

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and I don't think any Louisville fans
take him for granted. I mean,

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ten wins in year one, I
mean, the guy's been phenomenal. And

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here's to hope and they can have
another great season this upcoming year. But

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Louisville football, you know, they
were just kind of cutting their teeth as

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a program, really becoming I wouldn't
even say relevant, but just you know,

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having some level of footing in the
hierarchy of college football by that when

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and that was going on when they
were kind of breaking in, as I

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mentioned, cutting their teeth level,
it already won a couple of national championships,

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and it you know, with seventies
and eighties, Dinny Crumb put us

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on the map. So it's not
as if people say, oh, yeah,

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football's cool, but I love basketball. What it comes down to is

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that you know, your dad and
your grandpa even like Louisville football was kind

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of just a cool thing that like
never really mattered at a high level at

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all when basketball was becoming one of
the more known and respected brands in the

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sport. So I try to explain
that as best I can, and I

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don't know if I ever actually convey
what I'm trying to say. But it's

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not as if we don't like football
just as much. It's just the level

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of passion and just I guess craziness
is different because it's relatively new compared to

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all, like, that's one of
the things about lovel football that that I

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think is a compliment, Like we
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we were playing in a baseball stadium, you know, not that long ago

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in the grand scheme of things,
and didn't really have I mean, heck,

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we were almost kicked out a Conference
USA because of football and just the

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lack of resources there, and I
mean it was just such a secondary thing

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compared to basketball. And you know, here we are now where I mean,

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Jeff brom just finished in the top
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they've had. I mean, heck, a playoff appearance is not the outside

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of the question, just given the
fact that they're coming off of a ten

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win season in the playoffs now at
twelve. So anyways, my point is

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this, but like basketball, it's
I never want to say, well,

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hey, basketball is you know,
I'll do that. I'll just say this.

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Josh Hurt said it a few weeks
ago when he fired Kenny Payne.

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Louisville basketball. The basketball program at
the University of Louisville on the men's side

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is really the light. And I'm
paraphrasing, I don't. I don't have

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the quote in front of me,
but you heard what he said. We

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all know it. It's the lifeblood
of the University of Louisville and the athletics

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department, and it's a huge component
to this city of Louisville as well.

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So that is why you're able to
see this amount of money that's been raised.

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Again, fans have collectively chipped in
over half of a million dollars in

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what five days, three days since
they launched this campaign. I mean,

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that doesn't happen in most places.
And collectives are just a part of it.

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I mean, they're a big part
of it as far as nil money,

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but there are others that donate.
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when Oscar shi Way got the bag
after winning National Player of the Year at

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Kentucky, I'm pretty sure the money
he got wasn't from like a specific collective.

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It was probably from you know people, I guess collectively, you know,

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not not fan driven collective, but
you know people who were just willing

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to put up money and you know, give him a deal with this company

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or that company that this person owns. So you know, there's different ways

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you can do it. For example, Kenny Payne had nil resources for players

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that were just on this team this
year, but it was private in IL,

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like Kenny had people with money that
I guess helped WITHINIL directly. And

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that's why you know he left six
figures worth of money in the collective five

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OO two circle collective, I should
say that was available for men's basketball that

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just went unused. So there's different
ways to do it. So I don't

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want to act like like, hey, this collective they stink. Look at

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the money they're raising compared to Louisville, because you can do it. You

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can have resources available that aren't public
through a crowdsourcing, you know, fundraising

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campaign. But it is wild for
me to see that the La Familia Kentucky

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nil that is what was announced I
believe right before their season kind of came

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crumbling down, and it's you know, you can go and donate and sign

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up just like you can at the
five ZHO two circle. But right now

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they have a goal of a million
dollars. They have forty nine thousand,

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eight hundred and twelve dollars pony up
exactly. I mean, that's put it

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on a shirt, right Like Cal's
gonna have to go to Stoops's bag and

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say, look, man, I
guess I'm gonna have to tell them the

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pony up like you did, because
again, I don't want to insinuate that

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that's the only money that little of
the Kentucky basketball has available for an il

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because look, they've got they got
they in the grand scheme of things.

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Wouldn't shock me as if, you
know, if they couldn't compete with anybody,

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because it's Kentucky basketball, let's be
real. But just the optics of

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that looking side by side, they're
again fans of Kentucky can go sign up

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right now and donate money, and
there's been four hundred and eighty seven people

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that have done it, and that
total is at forty eight hundred and twelve

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dollars. As I just mentioned Dan
Furman at the five to two circle,

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he's the president, you know,
he just announced earlier today, and who

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knows where it's at now, right
I would say the addition of the Sun

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Belt Player of the Year might incentivize
others to start putting in more money.

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Okay, this is where my money's
going. Let's keep it rolling, baby,

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Let's go get you know, let's
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Of the year something like that.
But they've they've raised over five hundred thousand

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dollars the five to two circle has
compared to fifty thousand roughly from UK.

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That's not to say again that Louisville
has that much more money overall available,

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because again that's why I laid out
there are other ways in which you can

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bring in in a ale money.
But Michigan, I'm gonna pull up their

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social media. They're collective because Dusty
May. There's some kind of a slogan

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and campaign they're doing to raise money, like you know, they're they're hoping

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to get one hundred thousand dollars like
buy you know, within a few weeks

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or something, which again just seems
very measily compared to what Louisville's doing here.

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And again you have to understand this
one hundred thousand dollars that rick or

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sorry, this five hundred thousand dollars
that Louisville is on pace with right now.

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And again, what they're hope for
those who don't know the the the

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campaign here that's going on, rick
Keeper is going to match and give a

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million dollars when the fans collectively have
a million dollars raised and they're already again

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half more than halfway there in just
a few days. So that's awesome to

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have that money available to go help
you build this roster. But that's not

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the only way they're going to have
NIL money, right Like, There'll be

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people that are that are helping with
NIL that aren't doing it do the collective

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specifically, and you know people outside
of Rick Keeber that have the ability to

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do that on behalf of their companies
that are very successful. So I don't

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think we'll ever have full transparency to
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NIL, because again, it's just
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think it's safe to say Louisville right
now is really showing and it's getting national

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intention You're seeing right ups at twenty
four seven Sports, You're seeing write ups

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at on three Sports about how Louisville
just is really kind of, you know,

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showing off essentially as far as the
ability they have to raise money.

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And we all know that that matters
right now. But this is something that

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interested me. Maybe it doesn't interest
you, but I'll share it with you

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really quickly here because I know at
times just nerding out on numbers and collectives

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and all that kind of stuff.
Maybe it's not that interesting and it certainly

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doesn't seem to be that entertaining,
but hey, we all know that it

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matters right now. But this is
from somebody who covers college basketball High major

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Scoop is the outlet here, But
this is just some nil perspective here.

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It says middle of the road ACC
program has a roster budget in college basketball

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with nil around one and a half
million dollars. Dayton. They are a

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unique program that has not a great
history as far as championship in final fours,

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but clearly they have. They're a
basketball school. I mean that's they

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don't you know theyir football school.
I don't even know that. I think

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they're fcs. They have one point
four million, So again that's probably towards

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the top in the Atlantic ten.
And you know, to hear that Dayton,

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and who would you say is a
middle of the pack basketball school in

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the ACC historically speaking like fan interest
energy, was it maybe Virginia Tech?

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You think they'd be fair? Yeah, I'd probably say Virginia Tech. So

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to hear Virginia Tech and Dayton have
the same level essentially of nil money doesn't

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really surprise me. But what really
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Right. So apparently Youngstown State they
were just in there. They're in the

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Horizon They are believed to be the
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the Horizon League. They had a
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for men's basketball. So again,
like that's probably not surprising, right,

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A much different level than you see
at Dayton or a middle of the pack

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acc So again, that's not like
surprising news that just stands out, But

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just you know, it's a new
world and I can't help but be interested

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in all this, you know,
all the money that that that's you know,

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that's you know, being put up. I mean again, we've had

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plenty of people over the last few
days that have chimed in on their thoughts

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and they just hate that. You
know, you pay this much money for

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st for season tickets and donations,
and clearly if you have a good you

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know, good job, good career, you know you're you're not well off,

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you're not rich, but you know
you aren't struggling because if you're struggling,

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you couldn't afford that. So it
is hard earned money, and I

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get that it may just kind of
rub you the wrong way to know that

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they're now saying, hey, we
need your help, we need your support,

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whenever you already do support them by
again not only paying for season tickets,

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but the donation that goes with it, just so you can have season

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tickets. But look this, we're
never going back like this. If you

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want, if you want Louisville to
be good, Nil is going to need

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to be in a good place.
And for those of you that are against

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that, if you know, texted
in and whatnot, nobody's forcing you,

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nobody's telling you you're a bad fan
if you don't do it. And look,

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you chose not to do it,
and others are doing it. And

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Louis's in great shape. So I
know that it's going to just be,

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you know, something that fans don't
some fans don't like to hear, and

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it just kind of rubs them the
wrong way. But at the end of

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the day, like Louisville didn't like, louisll didn't create this, right,

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this is this is how things have
evolved in college athletics, and if you

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want to be successful, you have
to excel in this area, and it's

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happening. So, like, I
see it from both sides, right,

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Like I understand those who say,
look, if we really want to win,

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you better give money, and I
get those that say, I already

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give them enough money. They can
find other people to give them money to,

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you know, get players. That's
not my responsibility. Like, I

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see both sides of it. But
at the end of the day, this

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is never changing. This is now
something that we know is very important,

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and I'm just happy to know that
there are Like this is probably the of

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all the of all the things that
have transpired in the last couple of years

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with loisll basketball, with them just
you know, being at a level we

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never thought as far as just that
bad. We've always kind of deep down

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known that this is temporary. And
despite you know, four thousand people at

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the UM Center, we still have
a passionate fan base that cares, you

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know, like no other. And
I talked about it here and there throughout

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the postgame shows this past year.
The amount of people who not only care,

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but the level of care that they
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into Louisville basketball. You can't buy
that you can. And I think we've

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always known that, but I think
seeing the amount of money that fans have

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put together just in the last few
days is really the ultimate reminder and I

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guess proof more than anything that,
yeah, we are different than most.

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And I know there's a school up
the road in Lexington that has maybe one

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of the biggest fan bases you'll find, and they've got a lot. I

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mean, so it's not like I'm
claiming Louisville as the top dog and they're

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going to pass everybody else. But
you know, I don't think you'll find

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a college basketball program in the country
right now that you know, has more

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momentum that is very visible for people
to see when it comes to nil.

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And that's a good thing. It's
a good thing. I talked about it

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yesterday, right Tom Jurich for those
who missed me bringing this up. Tom

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Jurich, he overpaid for coaches.
He gave extensions and raises when they weren't

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necessarily wanted, you know why,
because he wanted it to be part of

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the brand. We will pay top
dollar at Louisville because that's how much we

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care. And I think fans are
kind of doing that right now. So

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it's just, you know, there's
multiple different benefits to this whole thing,

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and one of them is just it
being out there that Louisville man, they

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got money and that's a good thing. All right, let's take a quick

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break. We'll come back on the
other side, talk a little more about

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the final four matchups that were just
a few days away from some really crazy

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numbers that tell you that NCAA tournament
worship is a monster. And who knows

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what else we'll get into in these
next thirty minutes or so. It's coffee

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that's right, coffee and Company rolling
along here on a Wednesday afternoon. I

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was about to say, a beautiful
Wednesday, but I don't know. I

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haven't looked outside in many hours,
and it changes all the time. I

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mean, I know it's colder than
it has been recently, and I know

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yesterday we had some crazy storms and
I was of the belief that we were

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supposed to get some more bad weather
tonight. But you know, I could

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be completely wrong, because you know, it changes all the time, and

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sometimes they're just wrong about what they
predict. But it does look like it's

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still pretty cold. But as far
as like storms, I guess it's mostly

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going to be the chances of that
are more overnight, like around midnight.

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But yeah, yesterday, I mean
some of the pictures of the damage and

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whatnot, I mean there was a
real tornado in Oldham County. I mean

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I think that had happened as soon
as we ended up, you know,

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coming back to in the show yesterday, I mean the level of wind was

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knocking vehicles over. I mean,
that's just it's crazy, crazy stuff.

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So hopefully everybody stayed safe. Hopefully
if you lost power, you were able

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to get your electricity back. I
have one quick question, and this is

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pretending to tornadoes in Louisville. See. I grew up in Louisville about twenty

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years ago. I lived here for
about a year and a half, and

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I was always scared of natural disasters
like tornadoes and stuff. But people have

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always told me, like it,
tornado hasn't hit Louisville in this long It's

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never gonna happen. It's a big
city. The crosswinds just don't work.

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So for the longest time, I've
always pooh pooed tornadoes in this area.

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Was that just me? Or is
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I mean I think it may not
just be a Louisville thing, But I

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think there's a lot of folks who, you know, are just of the

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belief that the the warnings about some
crazy potential weather. I mean, it

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really can be just view as you
know, they it could happen, and

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therefore they're warning people, you know, better safe than sorry. But then

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there's also the other level, which
you know, I don't I try not

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to go there because I'm somebody that
you know, technically I guess is in

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the media, but I'm well aware
that like it's good for their business if

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people are locked into their product on
the news talking about some potential weather.

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So I think you're there. You
know, there's clearly going to be a

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level of Okay, you know,
we've heard it before, it'll probably be

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something, but nowhere near as as
you know, as disastrous as you know

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they're telling us it could be,
which you know, doesn't mean that they're

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wrong in warning us. You know
that that's their job. But I think

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the level of of the fear that
is that is put out there is a

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little much. But I'd answer the
question about saying this Austin as someone who

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lived here when they did get some
crazy tornadoes. I mean, there was

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a tenety that came right through where
where I grew up and still kind of

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live close to to this day,
and it wiped out, you know,

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a whole neighborhood. I think it
happened maybe in April, maybe early May,

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but I'll remember as we didn't finish
school that year because school the school,

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I think the roof was pulled off
the school. So that made it

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to where for a while you just
you know, you knew, you witnessed

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that it could happen and what it
could do. So whenever there was fear,

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you know, I shouldn't say fear
they were whenever they were telling us

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about some severe weather along the way, I think there was a clear fea

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there was a different level of fear
knowing that it did in fact happen and

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you know, made it real,
I guess. But when you were in

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Arizona, when you when you spent
a lot of your childhood out there,

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like I mean, what kind of
weather warnings did you guys get there was

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because you don't get snow right,
No, there's no snowe I will say

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it snowed a couple of times when
I lived in Arizona, oddly enough,

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around like the like around Easter time. I don't know why, but there's

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a couple of times. And thank
goodness, even though it's a sprinkle that's

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gone and literally like an hour,
they've closed schools for it, just so

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you know, let everyone have some
fun with snows and snow and Arizona.

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But dust storms, I guess was
prob at the most. That's something I

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can't relate to, but I'm sure
it's pretty serious. Middle of a dust

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storm and I saw it coming from
about ten miles away, and I was,

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you know, just kind of see
that happen. I was outside at

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a park with my dad. We
were helping cleaning up something, and just

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before you know what, everything is
just dusty, sandy. I could not

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see my own I couldn't even see
my own palm in front of my face

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for like at least ten fifteen seconds
before it passed. That was one of

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one of the scariest things I think
I've ever been apart, Well, does

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that is that kind of like a
mini tornado instead of it just being like

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you know wind, it's I guess
you basically calls yeah, it's it's it's

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not necessarily like a cyclone and it's
blowing off roofs of houses. You just

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have tiny particles of millions of particles
of sand flying at you really really fast,

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and that's that's never really good.
How many years did you spend in

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Arizona? Twenty years? What do
you miss the most here? When I

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was twenty, is there something about
the that you missed the most? Well,

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you know what I was. I
was. I was a little kid

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then, so I didn't I didn't
really understand the setting, you know,

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like the the mountain ranges and the
succulence if you will, you know,

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like the like the cactus and it's
just kind of like a beautiful land out

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there. You have. I've been
to I've been to Arizona once and I

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instantly thought to myself, I know
why people retire here. That's as I

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moved away, I now completely understand. I wasn't old enough to go to

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like the casinos, to really have
like fun time. It was. I

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lived on a military base. It
was more of like an enclosed city inside

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of another city, so there really
wasn't all that much to do. So

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yeah, I I've got such the
itch to travel. I don't have any

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any trips planned other than our annual
destined trip that we take in August as

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a family. And I've just got
the itch to get out and you book

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a flight and just go explore,
go to a new city. And I

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mean, I'm not just gonna do
it just to do it. I want

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to find something fun, make it
work, and you know, but yeah,

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this is this is this is a
good problem for me to have.

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But I have a ton of vacation
now because I've been here so long,

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which, by the way, shout
out to Austin. He's been at iHeart

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five years now go so I I'll
be I guess it's eight years for me.

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And because of the comp days and
just the overall you know, structured

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vacation that I get, I have. I mean, we're already a court

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you know, we're already one fourth
of the way through the year twenty twenty

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four, which is crazy to say
out loud, but it's true. And

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literally, April, I've got like
a ton of days. I got a

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user lose, so I'll figure something
out, uh, and it's probably gonna

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be where I'll just end up doing
a lot of kind of some random Thursday

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Monday kind of thing just to make
it a long weekend. But you know,

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last year there were three different trips
that I took where I was gone

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almost a whole I think I was
gone for three straight not three straight weeks,

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but three different instances I was gone
for a full week. And that's

407
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like, never good for this,
just because you know, that's a lot

408
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of time away. So I'll probably
just do it much differently this time around,

409
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where instead of just taking a week
here in a week in this month,

410
00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:48.640
it'll be kind of spread out.
But yes, like you fit like

411
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a Western vibe. I could see
you in like a little little little ten

412
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gallon and a big big belt buckle. You never watch a movie Tombstone,

413
00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:59.480
you know Kurt Russell, and I'm
familiar with it, but I haven't watched

414
00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:03.559
filmer. You know the story of
Wyatt Arp and Doc Holiday Like it's when

415
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you talk about old Western you think
me, right, that's what you're saying

416
00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:10.599
exactly. Talk about old Western shootouts
like it. You think of Tombstone,

417
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Arizona and that was like that that
that was like an attraction a little bit

418
00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:18.240
south of Tucson, like almost a
little bit north of where the border of

419
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Mexico was. But that was where
it was like an old fashioned town.

420
00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:25.519
And it's still like an attraction town
that people you know, walking around in

421
00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:29.000
old western garb and they challenge each
other to duels and that blanks and like

422
00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.200
shootouts' experience. Oh it's awesome.
And once again as a kid, I

423
00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:36.720
hated it. I hated going down
there. That's where we didn't understand the

424
00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:37.960
rarity of it, like that.
It was something that like you can't really

425
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get elsewhere, right, Yeah,
And and now it's you know you talk

426
00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:45.799
about fun old brothels right that are
like haunted that you could take a ghost

427
00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.000
tours through. It's it's really fun. I could totally see you in the

428
00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:52.240
coffee family just there. You can
see what some west right, Yeah,

429
00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:56.359
yeah, absolutely. Let me ask
you this, do you have a do

430
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you have a bucket list? Maybe
not a destination like a trip like a

431
00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:04.079
journey. Like The reason I ask
is because when I turned thirty, I

432
00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:07.880
was dead set on wanting to do
this and my wife, you know,

433
00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:11.759
I'll blame her. You know,
she told me she'd never do it with

434
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.400
me, and then kind of like, you know, I guess talked me

435
00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:15.759
out of it. But I wanted
to when I turned thirty. For my

436
00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:19.839
thirtieth birthday that summer, I wanted
to take a week and rent a car

437
00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:25.000
and drive across the country and you
know, stop here and there along the

438
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:26.480
way, you know, maybe spend
six hours in the car this day,

439
00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:30.559
do five hours the next day.
And I'll probably have to spend a couple

440
00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.119
of days doing longer trips than that
just to kind of make it. And

441
00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:36.160
then what I would do is rent
a car and then just fly back whenever

442
00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:37.200
I got you know, when I
got to it, Like I guess,

443
00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:41.599
my last destination rather that be whether
that be you know, whether that be

444
00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.720
Vegas or whatever or LA, I'm
not sure, and I still want to

445
00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.039
do that. I don't think i'd
be able to do it, you know,

446
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:49.480
I mean driving kind of guy.
You can you sit in there?

447
00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:53.240
Oh yeah, well so I can. I can. I can drive.

448
00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:00.559
But it'll put it this way,
it would because that trip would be broken

449
00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:03.799
up. I would I'd be fine
with it, but if i'm you know,

450
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if if there's a if there's a
trip that's going to be a you

451
00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:11.079
know, over ten hours, I'm
going to try to find a flight.

452
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:14.640
There's no way around it, just
because I just that, you know,

453
00:28:14.759 --> 00:28:17.160
if it's just a straight trip,
that just to me seeing well, and

454
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:18.759
also you got to be you know, you know, got to consider I

455
00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.519
have two children, and I now
know, like, hey, long car

456
00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:26.440
rides with with with those two little
ones, you know it it's just not

457
00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:32.440
fun. Yeah, exactly exactly.
So once we did a trip where we

458
00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:36.720
took the family vacation and we did
the flight rather than driving. It was

459
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:38.359
kind of one of those things we
we'll never not do that again. And

460
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.839
even you know, we still had
some you know, just kids being in

461
00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:44.759
an airport all, you know,
for for you know hours, it's never

462
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:48.000
fun. But you know you're in
the air for an hour and a half,

463
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:49.680
right instead of being in the car
for you know, ten hours.

464
00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:53.279
Because even if the if the destination
is roughly seven to eight hours away,

465
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:56.440
with two little ones, you're stopping
a lot more than you typically would,

466
00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:59.640
not just to use the restroom,
but probably to eat because you know,

467
00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:00.720
you just need to get him out
of the car. So, yeah,

468
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:04.279
as you were talking about your West
coast, your West coast past. It

469
00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:07.920
just hit me that, man,
I'm feeding for a trip. You see,

470
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.359
Domestically, I really don't have any
like I like to maybe go check

471
00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:15.920
out like Big Sky Country, maybe
Montana, but I always I like the

472
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.680
Florida. I've been to California,
and I love New York. It's one

473
00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:22.480
of my favorite places on Earth.
And as far as like living in Arizona,

474
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.839
I think I made that trip nick
driving like literally three or four times

475
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.680
in my life. I've driven from
Arizona to Kentucky. Oh my goodness times.

476
00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.440
And I hate the state of Texas
because of it. You drive past

477
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:41.720
that Panhandle of Texas and it takes
four ever and it's just literally nothing but

478
00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:44.880
cows and flatlands. But yeah,
Texas is like its own country. It

479
00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:48.680
literally is. But I tell you
what a place I'd probably love to spend

480
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.880
domestically, Oklahoma City. I think. I think Oklahoma is a beautiful,

481
00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.319
like wide open state, So I
think that that would be really cool to

482
00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:00.000
go. I couldn't sell anybody on
what would make that like a great place

483
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.160
to go. But that's what's kind
of my my new fixation with traveling is

484
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.319
that like the unknown about it and
yes, and knowing I've never been there

485
00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:10.960
is what makes it would make it
kind of a fun trip. I would

486
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:12.440
love to go to Greece though,
if I ever had the opportunity, I

487
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:17.039
would love to go check out the
Mediterranean. Yeah, I've seen some views

488
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:19.079
of Greece that make it look like
maybe the most beautiful place on Earth.

489
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:23.319
So yeah, I gotta get I
gotta get some traveling done before I need

490
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.720
to Actually, what I need to
do is actually just plan something because I'm

491
00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.519
a procrastinator. And what will happen
is that, you know, maybe we're

492
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.039
on the show together again in three
months and it's July, and I'm like,

493
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:34.400
you know what, man, I
got to use this vacation and this

494
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.759
is when I need to use it, because taking time off during football and

495
00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:41.319
basketball is not ideal. And I
don't even want to write it because I

496
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:44.599
want to be here on the air
and want to, you know, want

497
00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:45.920
to. I mean, there's no
better time for the show than that time.

498
00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:48.880
So anyways, real quick, before
we get to our last break,

499
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:51.039
let me talk to you guys about
my friends at the Louisville Men's Clinic.

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They've helped men in the Kentucky area
for over ten years now, there's a

501
00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:57.160
lot of other you know, one
of bees out there that have popped up

502
00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:00.000
and they claim to be able to
help you in the same way that Louis

503
00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.440
of a men's clinic can help you. But those places don't stick around very

504
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:04.960
often because, you know what,
they can't compete with the folks at the

505
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:08.519
Louis of Men's Clinic, and they're
you know, there's no silly gimmicks.

506
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:11.559
It's just you know, it's very
very clear what they do. That's why

507
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.319
their name is Louve of Men's Clinic. They help men with a variety of

508
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.119
things when it comes to overall health. The rectulitis functions one of them,

509
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low testosterone, weight loss, therapy, hair restoration. So fellas, look,

510
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you know, I know men oftentimes
don't want to fix things because they

511
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don't want to acknowledge that maybe they're
not the toughest and most manliest men.

512
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:34.839
But hey, you know what,
like it happens, man, Some of

513
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the biggest badasses you know may suffer
from low testosterone or a rectiltis function.

514
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.160
It happens, man, and it's
not fun. But I'm here to tell

515
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you you can do something about it. And that's reach out to my friends

516
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at the louis Of Men's Clinic.
FABO to four four four four thousand is

517
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the number. Louisville Men's Clinic dot
com is the website. We'll come back

518
00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:56.440
and put the finishing touches on a
Wednesday edition of Coffee and Company. Feel

519
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fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven
nine day. That's right, we were

521
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putting the finishing touches here on a
Wednesday edition Coffee and Company fueled by Thornton's

522
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:15.839
good vibes. No doubt if you
are, I mean, I doubt you're

523
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:17.720
just now joining us. But it
wouldn't shock me if we get to the

524
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:21.160
end of the week. And I
know it's just a couple of days away,

525
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:23.960
but maybe there's another transfer that has
decided to come and play for Pat

526
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:28.279
Kelsey here at Louisville. We did
have somebody asked this question earlier, and

527
00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:31.079
I don't know, you know,
I don't I don't know for certain,

528
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:37.559
but I have a strong feeling that
the College of Charleston big man that decided

529
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:42.240
to stay at at Charleston and play
for Chris Mack and and not enter the

530
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:45.680
portal. I don't you know.
Again, let's just be real here.

531
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:52.599
I think it was pretty telling when
Pat Kelsey took the job that you know,

532
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:55.359
only two guys as of now have
hit the portal that are that are

533
00:32:55.400 --> 00:33:00.720
heading to Louisville, meaning you know, those guys that he played that played

534
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:05.599
for Pat Kelsey at Charleston. You
know, I shouldn't speak for anybody that

535
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:07.960
because I have no clue what he
thinks of these guys. Maybe they wanted

536
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:09.200
to stay or whatever. But like
I think he knows that, you know,

537
00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:13.039
he's going to utilize the resources here
and go get players that are better

538
00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:15.680
than the guys he had at Charleston. So for those kind of wondering,

539
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:20.400
did Chris Mack, you know,
get the best of Kelsey, I mean,

540
00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:25.000
I don't think so. I would
imagine that that the big man Auntesrovzik

541
00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:30.799
probably not saying that correctly. I
would imagine him staying at at Charleston was

542
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.240
probably because, you know, one
he wanted to and he probably wanted to

543
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.720
play for Chris Mack. But I
don't get the feeling that Kelsey was urging

544
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:42.680
any any players other than those two
that have already transferred to Louisville to to

545
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:46.200
follow him. All Right, so
Yukon clearly looks like the best team in

546
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:50.640
the country. I mean, wouldn't
be shocked if they win at all,

547
00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:54.400
not just you know, with these
two wins to win the national championship,

548
00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:58.680
but like I wouldn't be shocked if
like their average margin of victories like in

549
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.960
the twenties. I mean, hard
to imagine them blowing out Purdue. But

550
00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:05.960
then again, like I can't say
we'd be that shocked. But here's Dan

551
00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:10.159
Hurley with with Colin Cowherd yesterday and
talking about how he's able to, you

552
00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:14.599
know, stay under the radar and
use it as as fuel. Actually,

553
00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:15.719
never mind, we don't have time
for that, do we. I just

554
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:20.400
realized what time is. I'm sorry, but it will play tomorrow. It's

555
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:24.679
not you know, it's not super
time sensitive. But Yukon they're in a

556
00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:30.360
weird spot because they can't claim that
they're like the underdog or that that nobody

557
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:34.440
knows who they are, and they're
being doubted. But I still believe there's

558
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.960
a lot there's teams that you know, would be in other conferences like the

559
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:44.239
ACC, the Big East, I'm
sorry the Big ten and the SEC even

560
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:46.920
and there. I just think that
there's a legitimacy to the fact that they

561
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:50.800
are not getting the same attention that
other teams would do if they were doing

562
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:52.960
the same thing they're doing. Anyways, we're out of time. Talk to

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you tomorrow right here on Sports Talk
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