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joining us, welcome in. You're late, but it's okay, better late
than never. And I want to dive right in here to some football stuff
that I've not talked about yet today, but I've mentioned it here and there.
And there are a couple of early post They used to be called,
you know, the entirely too early college football preseason rankings. Now they do
post spring rankings. And here's what's crazy. Nothing's I mean, I guess
maybe some things could change because there are I mean, actually the portaland football
isn't closed, is it, or is it? I think it is.
I think yeah, I think it closed right on the same time the basketball
one did. But you know, there'll be not a whole lot changing from
here on out because you know, nobody can. I mean, guess there
could still be players out there that haven't committed. But you'll see a new
wave of these rankings like early summer. You'll see a new wave of them
like post media days. And you know, nothing will actually change as far
as how you're assessing these teams. But you know, cranking out that offseason
college football content, it's a lucrative business for the folks at ESPN, the
athletics, CBS Sports, So the athletic will start there. They put out
their post spring rankings and Louisville I would have guessed that they that they came
in right in the twenties or maybe just just right on the outside, but
they came in at number twenty two. So I was, you know,
I was on track there. And I am curious if Louisville's getting added just
because they're coming off of a ten win season played in the ACC Championship and
Jeff Brohm is their coach, and at times, I know it sounds as
if like, well, everybody's gonna love Louisville because Jeff Brom's the greatest coach
of all time and he's just the man. And yes, I do believe
that, but I don't think everybody believes that. I mean, I know
it to be a fact. Other aren't as aware. They they'll learn once,
you know, Jeff has been here for a little while longer, but
there is somewhat of a brand bump, but just because Bram is a guy
that has always been very well respected in coaching, and you know, it's
not worth getting into now, but I was so irritated when people would bring
up his record at Purdue as if like Louisville shouldn't go that route, and
it was just such an idiotic thing to say, because nobody actually realized that
Perdue was so bad in like the five years before he got there. But
anyways, this is what the athletics said about having Louisville at number twenty two.
Jet Brom was brought to Louisville to make this program great again, and
he got off to a heck of a start last season, leading the Cardinals
to the a SEC championship game. Louisville had one of the best portal classes
of the cycle, headlined by quarterback Tyler Shock. The Cards also have a
potential first round pick on the defensive line in Ashton Julyati. Don't be shocked
if you see this team right back in the ACC title game in December.
Oh that gets the football juices going. John, I'm ready to head to
put this before he But I made an early wager for Louisville to win the
ACC. I love it. I love it. You know, I don't
know if they're going to do it, but you know, you probably got
decent odds and it's not like a crazy thing. It would have been a
crazy I would have had you evaluated your mental state if you did it if
Sadderfield was the coach, right, because that would have been that would have
been insane behavior. This is not insane behavior because you know, we're in
a different world now with with with Jeff Brohm. So the other righte up
here, this is from ESPN. They put theirs together and they they said
something about Tyler Shuck that, like I hope is is true. So they
have Louisville at twenty one, so consistent there, but they did an overreaction
for each team like something that you know is a bold opinion stra something that
may maybe some would say is a hot take. But their overreaction about Louisville
is this, Tyler Shuck will be a star. And it is crazy to
say this, but the seventh year senior Shuck has had a hard time staying
healthy throughout his career, but in the spring game, he showed exactly why
Jeff Brown went after him. In the transfer portal, Shuck played nearly flawless,
going eight of twelve for two hundred and seventy seven yards two touchdowns,
included one score in the first play from scrimmage, a beautiful eighty yard pass
to Chris Bell that immediately showed Shuck's arm strength. They go on here to
talk about the predecessor, Jack Plummer, had experience running the offense, but
you know, let's be real, he wasn't a great quarterback here, but
says that Shuck has the arm talent to do that, and Bell looks poised
to be wide receiver number one. Louisi wanted to add more receivers to the
portal, but even without that, Shuck has made major strides over a short
period of time and getting acclimated to a new offense and making plays happen.
So that's from Andrew Adelson who wrote that for ESPN. So they did want
to add some players, more receivers in the portal, but like I mean,
I feel like they still have good players in the portal, or if
good players from the portal at the receiver position. And you know, I'm
surprised in any of the right that I'm seeing about Louisville football in twenty twenty
four that nobody's mentioning Jacori Brooks, who transferred from Alabama, who did not
play a ton last year, but the year before that was Alabama's I believe
they're leading receiver. I mean for again Alabama. I feel like he could
probably adjust here just fine if he can do it at Alabama. And then
Colin Lacey, you know, he comes from South Alabama and he you know,
it's a lower level, but his team was good and he was wanted
by just about everybody. I think him not getting a whole lot of buzz
in the spring and him not really doing much in the spring game had people
kind of, you know, maybe not as excited, but you know,
I think those two guys and Chris Bell, who I think you can see
clearly has you know, big playmaking ability. We've seen it at times and
he did show it a couple of times in the spring game. So we
got a long way before we get to football season. But it's just I
mean, Jeff Brawm entering year to back home at Louisville, coming off of
a ten win season where you made the ACC Championship game is such a phenomenal
place to be in as a Louisville fan. And uh, I don't know
how good they're going to be this year. I think they will be good
once again. And it you know, Sadderfield. He wasn't Kenny Payne,
he wasn't even a bad coach. He just wasn't. Although you know we
have a losing record in the ACC. I mean, I think people can
say you're a bad coach and it's not like a hot take. But we've
got Brom and he's a lot better, and it's just you know, it's
a good fit. And look, if he doesn't win, then yeah,
things will be icy and people will be upset. But like, I'm not
worried about that. Can you guys tell him a big Bron fan? Does
that come off much on the show? John? It does well? But
I lost my Bron button. Oh no, I need to so sometimes you
know who it was. You know who it was. Who did it?
Is a damn buck Sextick. Buck Sextick coming in here and removing the the
hot key button to play my Brom sound. I mean, geez, what
really happened is I didn't give it a long enough date, so it expired
to reput it do there? Well, just blame it on buck Sexton next
time. I know it'd be good for us if we create some kind of
a non existent feud, right, maybe we can get him a call in,
like maybe get pissed off. Oh, I can tell people like,
oh my god, man, this studio b I I got to talk to
the boss. I need to go in a new studio because Buck Sexton,
Man, he farted so much when he did the show. It's just completely
ruined the studio. Could you imagine like if that was something that he had
to do to get comfortable in a new studio, he just had to rip
as just ripping ass man. Everybody's got their own method, right, whatory
And also, what did I say at the beginning of the show. It's
about being comfortable, and some people, you know, they do weird things
to get themselves comfortable. Maybe hits him just completely ripping ass. You never
know, you know, you never you never really know what people are into.
Let's just be real here, all right, so real quick. Before
we move on from football, some news for Kentucky fans u and I kind
of feel like this came out of nowhere, but I'll acknowledge I don't follow
Kentucky football transfer portal stuff. But Gavin wimsat the Rutgers transfer, who was
originally from Owensboro, he committed to Kentucky earlier today. I would imagine that
means he's probably going to be their backup, and he was not very productive
at Rutgers I think nine touchdowns, eight interceptions this past season, But you
know, he is a guy that has experience, and like a lot of
schools, Kentucky has been, has been kind of gutted by the portal when
it comes to quarterback and I feel like, you know, keeping maintaining depth
there is going to be difficult. But yet then again, you look at
Louisville and this isn't like, oh, you know, like I'm not even
really trying to compare the two, but like, it's crazy that Jeff Brom
has that many quarterbacks on the roster. Like if I was those kids,
you know, maybe there's a part of their experience here that you know that
I don't know about as far as like maybe they feel like one more year
then it'll be their turner. One more year, then they'll actually be in
a better position to transfer and they want to keep learning from Brom. I
don't know, but to see this many guys who were highly ranked quarterbacks coming
out of high school that would have a better chance of starting if they go
elsewhere, they still want to be here. It's just rare. You don't
you don't see that anymore are. We also talked a little bit about the
Tom Brady roast. I know, yesterday I talked about it briefly and I
ended up finishing it last night, and it was so phenomenal. I mean,
it was so good, really funny, and like Tom Brady, I
mean, clearly it's him that's getting made fun of, but when you have
you know, like comedians like Kevin Hart, Jeff Ross is it Tom Sigora
I think it's his last name, and Bert Kreischer, and I mean it
was just hilarious. And you know, to see Bill Belichick come out and
be a part of it, like that was kind of cool. Julian Ellman
and Gronk, like they're not stand up comedians, but you know what,
they can make fun of Tom Brady in a way that like nobody else can
because like they know him better than anybody, their teammates, friends, that
kind of stuff. So it was really really good. I enjoyed it,
and it's already turned into such a big success that everybody's asking who is Netflix
going to have roasted next? And there was a list that was sent out
by one of these sports betting sites that give you the odds, right which
athlete has the best odds and you can bet on it to get roasted next
and Lebron came in at number one, and I just, I mean,
I could see it happening, but it won't be good. It won't because
Lebron James, if he agreed to do it, he would make sure he
has clear He's given clearance to every single person and what they're gonna say,
and like they wouldn't be able to go too hard on him. You know,
he'd probably let one person make fun of his fake hair in his hairline.
Like other than that, they're just I mean, I don't even like
how did he like? Lebron probably is so he's so unaware of how he
comes off. He lacks self awareness so much. That's a better way to
put it. That like, if you talk to him about getting roasted,
he would probably think, like, well, what could they roast me about?
Like I'm Lebron And I say that as somebody that actually likes Lebron as
like a player, Like you know, it's more about like just knowing that
he's one of the best players of all time, being able to see his
career from start to fan and you know, I even like Brady like I
hated Brady growing up. I'm a Peyton Manning guy like I hated Brady,
but like I, you know, I respect how great and accomplished he was,
and you know, I got a chance to watch his whole career.
So like with Lebron, he's great. He's a legend, no doubt about
it. But he he could I don't think he'd sit there for three hours
and let these stand up comedians roast him and you know, be the butt
of the joke. I just don't think he would do that. You think
he'd walk out the moment somebody did the Jordan Crawford joke. I don't know.
And we talked about that earlier. Thank you to the Texter who reminded
us of that, because I was trying to, you know, as best
I could put into words like what about like Lebron to me would be the
worst person to roast because he would have every he would kept control over everything,
and it wouldn't be funny. Now, I guess in a way,
like you know, he can't really control what's being said, but he wouldn't
agree to do it unless he had control. And they reminded me of somebody
on the text on reminded me of when Jordan Crawford dunked on him years ago.
I mean, before the Internet, what is what it is now?
Right? Like, not everybody had their phone out videoing every single thing.
You couldn't upload. I mean, TikTok didn't exist. Instagram was only pictures.
You didn't have video on Twitter. You just had like YouTube links and
you would embed videos on websites. And Lebron and his people, whoever that
is made the person who video that him getting posterized deleted before they left,
like held him hostage, almost wouldn't let him leave the gym without deleting it
because he's that insecure and he's just you know, he had he's unable to
really read the room and see how he comes off. And I feel like
you have to have a sense of humor, you have to have a level
of self awareness, and you got to have tough skin to be able to
do what Tom Brady did the other night, because it I mean, it's
one thing that you know, to have your teammates come up and roast you
and make jokes and you know, take shots. It's another thing for some
of the funniest people on planet Earth to do it because you know what,
that's why they're rich and famous, because they do that really well better than
anybody. I mean, I wouldn't want to be roasted, but I mean
I wouldn't be worthy of it, trust me. But like the thought of
like someone who's really good at making jokes about someone like, yeah, I
don't want to go and cry myself to sleep. And Tom Brady, you
know, he's accomplished so much in life that he'll he's you know, he's
not phased, I don't think. But there were some things. I mean,
it was just uncomfortable at times, and it didn't hit me until until
I got further on in the three hour roast and hearing Kevin Hart say it
many times throughout, and there's a reason for it to be said, like
you have to get comfortable being uncomfortable when you are getting roasted, or if
you're just like watching it in attendance, or you know, even like I
mean, at times I would just like get out my phone and kind of
distract myself because I was just thinking old man like Aaron Hernandez jokes, I'm
not a prude, like I'm not. I'm not here to say that somebody
should be canceled or anything like that. But I mean, that's just I
don't know. I don't even want to use word to describe it because I
don't want to have people thinking that I'm saying, like, yeah, let's
make more jokes about the guy who you know, murdered people than murdered himself.
Like I'm not saying that. It's one of those moments where imagine if
somebody just turned on the radio at five eighteen there, Yeah, we're you
know, promoting more people making fun of you know. So it's not like
but it just is something you haven't like, you haven't heard people go that
far, and it you know, I could have done without it. You
know, it would have been just as funny if they didn't make a bunch
of jokes about Annon Hernandez and make jokes about Tom Brady his wife leaving him
for her karate instructor, which again, like had no clue that was true,
but it is. And he seemed a little uncomfortable when it happened.
But he also at times would like do a cheers to where he kind of
was okay with people making fun of her. But you know, she's already
talking about how disappointed and disgusted. She was, so was Aaron Hernandez's you
know wife, which her reasoning behind being bothered is understandable. And I don't
really know what you do. Like but her daughter, he has kids that
are you know, probably gonna hear about it being said from some of her
friends or when they get older. It's you know, it's on the internet.
It's forever. But you know, not to sound like an insensitive ahole,
but at some point, his children, any children of somebody who committed
heinous crimes and you know, was the celebrity, Like, they're gonna find
out who their dad was. Like, that's awful, It's terrible. It's
a traumatic experience that I would never want to go through. But you know,
it's just that's unfortunately, that's life for them. I mean, would
you be able to shield that from somebody? No way, right, No,
not possible. I mean, and I don't think you should, Like
I think you should be honest with somebody, not keep that from them,
but like it would be like it's impossible, it really is. So I
think either Shaq or Charles Barkley would be the best because I think they would
be able to take it and you know, have a good sense of humor.
They are funny themselves. And Brady was funny too. He wasn't like
he had some good lines. He didn't deliver anything as if he was like
cracking jokes, because that's just not his personality. But Brady, you know,
he was a good sport about it. And I mentioned this at the
beginning of the show for those who didn't hear it, and if you've already
watched it, then you know this. But Ben Affleck came out and it
wasn't like part of his bit, which by the way, he's not a
comedian, he's just an actor. And to be honest with you, he
was probably one of the worst roasters that was a part of it. But
he came out and it seemed like a very genuine statement, which was who
in the hell would agree to do this, to just sit out there for
three hours and have some of the most hilarious people in the world make fun
of them for millions of people to see. I mean, it's it looks
some of these people are ruthless. Like Andrew Schultz. I mean I've only
seen like clips of him on social media. He's a podcaster, comedian guy,
but Man was on. He was unreal, and I mean that in
a complimentary way. He was hilarious. Tiger Woods has been mentioned bys some
people on the text line he's on here, but his odds are way down.
I don't. I don't think he'd be I don't think that would be
I think he'd be awkward, awkward. He's awkward in general. Michael Jordan,
he would never do it, and he's I mean, Michael would want
to like if I mean, if anybody made any kind of comment about like
him as a player, he'd get up mad and want to play them one
on one at the age of sixty. I mean, that's that's how George
my Man Jordan's wired like that. Travis Kelcey, I don't. I mean,
that might be good, but I don't because he's he'd be really easy
to make fun of. I could kind of see that. Mahomes is a
big enough star, and there's some things you can make fun of about,
like him sounding like Kermit the Frog and he puts ketchup on steak. But
were you really I think if let's just say they did this roast two nights
ago and it was Patrick Mahomes, and it's the same cast of characters outside
of, of course, you know, the Patriots teammates. That wouldn't be
there for Mahomes. It would be people making fun of Britney Mahomes and Jackson
Homes and that could be really funny. But I don't think he would do
that. Like I don't probably make fun of his dad too. Oh yeah,
I forgot about that. Yeah, that would be and that would that
would be That would easily be a part of it too. Yeah, if
they're doing the Aaron Hernandez stuff. Yeah, and like if you're Mahomes,
like you may not be that bothered by because honestly unfortunate. I mean,
I don't know enough about his wife other than she just seems like the worst
ever. It just seems like annoying and just like, you know, somebody
I wouldn't want to be around. But his brother is just a complete clown
and brings a lot of, you know, all that nonsense on himself.
And you know, it's actually been criminally charged with doing awful things to people.
I think it ended up getting dropped. But like you may sit there
and think I don't care. You know, they deserve it right, have
at it. Crack jokes on my wife who's annoying, and my brother who
sucks, or my dad who can't stop drinking. But like your your your
family wouldn't want that, you know, Like it just there's a level of
humanity you would be, like, you know, and here's another thing that
I'm just thinking about out loud. Here a lot of families and even close
friends like brothers, sisters, that kind of stuff, Like you can make
fun of them, but if somebody else does, you want to fight,
you know what I mean, that's different. That's how like to this day,
like my sister, you know, she and I are close as you
know is she and I are eleven and a half months apart, So we're
close, but we're not like you know, we don't text each other and
you know we don't probably haven't given her a hug in fifteen years, no
joke, but like we're klug. I see her a lot that kind of
stuff. But like if she was to hear somebody saying something about me,
she'd probably want to fight him. Like that's just it's maybe not be because
of me, it's just because it's how families kind of are at times.
But I hope they do more of these but I really have a tough time,
really have a tough time imagining them being as good as the one we
just had with with Tom Brady. What if we had like a Tony Vannetti
roast here at Ia, Oh they've I think they might have done one before
no Venette. They did a roast of Matt Jones about six years ago,
I believe roughly, and Venette apparently was the star of the roast. Okay,
I could see that, and I think they might have. There was
a time where they were gonna do you know, like Terry Tony. I
know they did Matt, and if it's somebody I know getting roasted, I
don't I wouldn't want to be there. I'd want to be there. I
would be because I would I would have second hand embarrassment. Yeah, but
you got to keep in mind, like we probably, I don't know,
we probably could do it for Tony. Kevin Hart would come right, he
would clearly, Kevin Hart, Jeff Ross who you know they did want to
be a part of the Tony Vannette roast because he's such a star. But
to be fair, Tony would be Cody could take it more than anybody I
know in this world we live in of Radio Tony. You know, I've
he's a robot, like people can tell him they think he's the biggest scumbag
in the world. And I don't think anybody is saying that. But he
would not, he wouldn't, he wouldn't blink an eye. And I'm not
too you know, I'm not too insecure to admit that, like, that's
not me. I've had my fair share of insults lobbed my way, and
at times I'm like, well, this person is a troll on the internet.
It doesn't know me. But then there's sometimes I'm like, damn,
that was mean, But you know, it happens. All right, We'll
talk a little more about the h the portal here on the other side,
just a quick update on names that appear to be the new targets for Pat
Kelsey and a local kid here from Louisville that just picked up an offer from
Louisville. And this made me feel really old because I played with his dad,
knows dad well, and now he's like, I think he's going to
be a guy that I mean, he could be the first high school kid
that Pat Kelsey and Mark Pope gohead go ahead for head with go go head
head to head for so, all right, don't go anywhere, We'll keep
rolling along. It's the five o'clock hour right here on Sports Talk seven ninety
so if we were going to it's a good question. Somebody asked in the
text line if I was going to rank the transfers in the portal as far
as the names we've talked about most. I mean, this isn't a transfer,
but I feel like Jaden Quaint's became like a daily fixture within the show,
would you agree, John, Yes, for sure. And then outside
of that, I don't really know if there's one that became like a you
know, great Osabor has been. Yeah, it's probably him a long talking
point for the last week because he's one of the best players in the portal
and he kind of had his visit happen where you know, there was no
getting lost in the shuffle, it was just him, so you know,
he's he's up there. It'd probably be number one if we're talking just transfers,
because you know, the others, their commitment, you know, came
at a time where there was no other commitment like that same day or the
day before or after, right, I think they did that strategically to let
each of these guys kind of have their moment where you know, it's reported
to everybody and it gets some attention. You know, Pat Kelsey's added you
know, cater Trail or from Long Beach State, He's added Ali Khalifa or
Chucky Hill. Yeah, exactly, so I think everybody that they've added.
I mean, again, disclaimer, no clue how good Louisll is going to
be in year one of the Pat Kelsey era, just because it's all brand
new. The ultimate you know, just unknown. But as far as the
personnel that's been added at this point, I'm very pleased. And they still
have work to do, there's no doubt about it. But you know,
it sounds like they're in good shape with Great Osibor because he visited Louisville last
week and by all accounts, the visit went fine. I mean, I
don't think no update means that it was bad, But to me, it
just feels like everything with him is transactional. Right He's out here trying to
see as much money as he can get, and he has every right to
do that, and I believe Louisville right now is the one that will pay
him the most money. So he visited Texas Tech, and it sounds as
if that that is soured. So now he visits Washington to see if he
wants to reunite with his with his coach and follow him once again, like
he followed him from Montana State to Utah State. So you know, I
wouldn't be shocked if in the next few days we find out what he's going
to do. And I'm not here to tell you that. I think it's
going to be Louisville, but I think they've got, you know, a
good shot. I'd say, just a guess here, of course, fifty
five percent chance they landed. That's that's my guest, says of five point
thirty four here a on a Tuesday afternoon. When do you think we'll find
out Thursday? Okay again, just guessing here, yep, just guessing.
So yeah, there's other names we discussed a little bit earlier. We talked
about at Cora A Core, the kid from Samford. He is somebody that
they're apparently trying to get on campus for a visit. He's another big guy,
put up some good numbers last year. Auburn is also involved there.
It sounds like they are the favorite case in price South Word to transfer a
six to ten big who Louisville, Arkansas, Illin, I'm sorry, and
Villanova are in on. I would really like to get I mean, I
really like Cason Pryor. It just it seems like Arkansas looks to be in
the best shape there, which would be a bumber. But you know,
there's still other players out there. And then a guy that I haven't mentioned
is is Kahani Ruths, who is a freshman to be twenty twenty four class.
He signed with Michigan, decommitted, got out of his letter of intent
when Juwan Howard was fired. I believe rivals is reported that he's going to
visit Louisville even maybe this weekend. Michigan is still in play, Dusty May
wants him, and George is involved, but this could be a big man.
He was a top thirty player in the twenty twenty four class, and
you know, freshman now, you don't feel as if you're going to get
as much out of him right out of the gate, which honestly, that's
always been the case. There's just been the rare exceptions. But hey,
I mean, it wouldn't be crazy to have a freshman who is a top
thirty player, give you, you know, sixteen minutes to twenty minutes a
game off the bench one of your reserve bigs. And that's not asking a
freshman to do too much, I wouldn't think. And then a new name
that is at least new as far as the you know, the involvement from
Louisville is Wuga Popla. Do you know who that is? You've heard that
name? I haven't heard it that. I mean, Woga Poplar is a
Miami transfer. He's a guard six or five guard from Philadelphia. Did not
play. I mean I think he played, but was not a big factor
on their team when they went to the Final four. And then last year,
despite you know, Miami being really bad, he had a breakout year.
He averaged thirteen points, five rebounds, a couple of assists. So
Louisville is one of the many schools involved there that's linked with him. So
I don't have a clue if he's scheduling visits or whatnot. But yeah,
there's still scholarships available and there's a lot of options out there. As far
as how this game of musical chairs ends and where these guys ends, up.
You know, we just have to wait and see, and that's always
the case. But again, I feel like there used to be some pretty
It's such a longer process when you're recruited as a high school kid for many
years to where it lines up to where Okay, yeah, this kid's gonna
stay home and go to this school or Whatnotright real quick, before we move
on the local kid that just picked up an offer here. I'm sure a
lot of you have heard about him, Caden Magwood. He's actually playing at
Oakill Academy. He's been there for I think two years now, but he
played at Western High School as a freshman and was really good as a freshman,
and he picked up a Louisville offer over the weekend. He's been killing
it on the Adida circuit. He's a four star, top one hundred caliber
kind of guy. From what it sounds like, he's been so impressive so
far this spring. He'll probably jump up quite a bit in the rankings,
and again Louisville offered him. Kentucky's gonna get involved. It sounds like I
saw something from one of the KSR writers that he plans to visit Kentucky and
Mark Pope is aware of him, and you're not sure of the offer.
So I played high school basketball and even middle school with not not with as
far as the same team. But his dad is Al Magwood, who graduated
same year I did. He went to Southern High School and I played against
him every year from like sixth grade on. We actually signed with the same
school initially coming out of high school. We both signed with Mitt Continent when
we were seniors. He ended up going there. I ended up going to
Saint Catherine instead at the last minute. And his dad was a hell of
a player his I mean no offense. Al, if you're listening to your
son, looks like he's a better player. But diehard UK fan, I
mean obnoxious UK fan, not not Cayden, but his dad. Then I
don't mean that you know, he's just a diehard UK fan. If you're
a diehard fan of one of the other, like you know, it's just
how it is. So I'm sure his son will decide where he wants to
go to school and his dad's love for BBN won't be a factor. But
you know, everybody, it's people who know of him just because of of
Al have always said, you know, the Louisville offer, and I'm always
thinking, like, man, I hope they do, but I don't know.
He hates his dad, hates the Littleville, and loves Kentucky. But
you know that it wouldn't be crazy at all if he ends up at Louisville,
because you know, maybe Louisville's a better program for him at that time.
But as soon as I saw this morning that Mark Pope was already you
know, showing interest and he's going to visit, I started to worry a
little bit. But hey, I'm not going to count out Pat Kelsey just
yet. And Pat Kelsey has familiarity with with Cayden, and I remember this
right around the time that that Kelsey was hired, he was one of the
first to offer Cayden Magwood whenever he was, you know, a sophomore,
because that's when you're at Charleston, you get in on these guys a lot
earlier than others, and because that's your only chance of potentially getting them,
is that maybe they just develop and establish a relationship with you to where they
will go to the smaller school. Right well, at Okill, he had
a great year last year and he's had a great spring so I'm sure more
offers will come, but yeah, that would be really cool for me to
see to see him at U of L, just because of the connection,
but also because he's a really good player. So if at Kelsey and Mark
Pope go after him, like I could see it coming down to these two
schools. He just picked up an offer from Chris Beard too, by the
way, which could never count that guy. He's a pretty good coach too,
But it would be cool for It wouldn't be cool if, you know,
Louisville came out on the losing end, but for maybe the first battle
between Mark Pope and Pat Kelsey. For a local player be somebody that you
know. I remember when he was a baby and I knew he'd be a
good player, but man, he really, you know, he did such
a He took a chance on himself, went to Oak Hill not knowing where
he'd play. As far as you know, I think he's always had confidence
in himself. But you know, the guys who go played oak Kill are
guys who you know are going to be four and five star recruits that are
going to have big offers. And he was there, He's been there for
two years now and got better every year and it's paying off for him.
One other name to mention here that we haven't talked about since the three o'clock
hour, but Trent Noah, that is a local kid, the number two
player in stead of Kentucky has committed and signed to South Carolina. But he,
I guess, either requested to get out of his letter of intent today
or he has already gotten out of it. I'm not sure of the specifics,
but it sounds like Kentucky's going to be where he ends up, which
makes sense. You know, I threw this out there earlier, and there's
no way to know for sure, but there's like, if you grow up
in Harlan, Kentucky, your whole life, in your life is basketball,
what are the chances you're not a diehard Kentucky fan? Like one percent?
Maybe, Like it would take some some scenario like your dad played at a
different school or you moved there when you like, I mean, it would
be very unusual for this kid to not be a diehard Kentucky fan, which
you would think that that gives Kentucky the leg up here. They have scholarships
available. Cali Perry didn't recruit guys like this for the most part, So
you know, I would expect him to go there. But and I'm not
even sure where people are getting this from. But others, including you know,
even KSR have mentioned Louisville is expected to be involved here as well.
So you know, I if look, if I if I talk to the
kid and you get you know, you get the sense of where of where
he's you know, leaning if I'm if I'm Kelsey, I mean I'd probably
just say good best of luck, young man, We'll see you every year
in December, because you know, you know what I mean if if you
go head to head and lose this one, like it wouldn't be a big
deal because I think you can still you know, be a good team and
have great success here if you don't get one player. But it is interesting.
It's gonna be interesting to see, like when when are we gonna have
Because here's the thing. Even Betino would not recruit locally unless somebody was really
special, and that's honestly that should be the case, because these programs here
are special. Kentucky would never recruit local and if they did, Cali Perry
resented taking these guys because he like held it against him that fans wanted them
to come to Kentucky. He did that with Dante Allen, he did it
with Derek Willis until the end he did start to really play Derek and and
obviously with th Reed Sheppard, different situation because Red Shepherd is that's special.
But it is going to be wild whenever we get it gets. You know,
when there's there's a kid locally and I don't just mean Louisville, maybe
just the surrounding area that like it's going to be Louisville or Kentucky and you've
got fans from both sides showing up at their high school games that kind of
stuff, Like it feels like it's been forever since that happened. And for
a while Rick wouldn't even do it because he just, you know, there
was no point. I mean, that's I know at times he got criticized
for that, but like a lot of schools would have been wise and maybe
they'll be wise to do the same thing at Arkansas. But if you were
going head to head with Cali Perry for a recruit, you weren't winning many,
if any. Only Duke I feel like was consistently getting players over col
All right, let's see, let's get our last breakout of the way here.
What I want to get to on the other side is a wild story
in college football that just again doesn't seem real, but it is a twenty
nine year old freshman going to be playing college football in the SEC with a
wild story. We'll get to that. And the field of sixty eight gave
out grades. The report cards are in as the musical chairs has come to
an end, every college basketball job vacancy has been filled, and we'll tell
you what grades they gave the two new coaches around here. Stick with us
on Sports Talk seven ninety. So this is this is something I can tell
you that I've never heard of happening before, and that is a professional baseball
player who has played ten years professionally, was a member of the twenty fourteen
recruiting class, is now going to be a freshman receiver for Arkansas. So
Monte Harrison has committed to Arkansas, and he was a four star receiver in
twenty fourteen, ten years ago, and he was drafted in the second round
of that draft that year. Was committed to Nebraska, but ended up taking
the path of baseball because he got drafted in the second round and played,
you know, roughly ten years, I guess, and even was up in
the big leagues with the Marlins for two seasons, but last played in twenty
twenty two. And now he's decided he's twenty nine years old, he's decided
to play high school or to play college football. Like, how weird is
that? So if he's going to be a freshman and he has four years
of eligibility, he can play into his thirties for this is a thing.
Yeah, he's a true freshman. He never used any eligibility. This is
weird. You know, I could see this being one of those things where
it's like, you know, he better not be getting any of RNIL money
because he's made enough money as a I mean, you're draft in the second
round and you play years in the league, you know. I he played
his recent as twenty twenty two, meaning he was not on his rookie deal.
He was on a new contract. So like he's got money unless he's
blown it all. But like imagine being a let's say place four years and
goes to the NFL draft. Thirty thirty two year old receiver entering the NFL.
This sounds like the premise for just a stupid sitcom. Yeah, I
mean it seems like maybe he worked out showed him he still has you know,
he was a professional athlete, you know, it's not like he's just
been a bum sitting on the couch. But that's just awkward, Like you
know, in the in the locker room is going to be yeah, six
years younger than you, oh, no doubt or more. Yeah. I
mean like dudes who are joining the team with him as freshmen were seven years
old when he was coming out of high school. Like that's so weird.
Oh man, he's older than you. John, it's crazy. You should
hear you should you should try to do the same thing. Go play,
Go play soccer at UVEL or something and just be like, hey, I'm
here to walk on, Like how old are you? Twenty six? Actually
need to play a minute? Just want to be on the team. Yeah,
is this guy expected to get playing? I have no clue to me.
You know, it's it's a news story that's going to generate some attention.
But one of two things, like they're just desperate to see what this
guy's got because they need players, or they actually think he's really talented,
you know, And this is somebody who will be playing under Bobby Petrino.
That's right, Bobby. Actually, now that you say that, Bobby p
had to be the one to sign off on and he's the one run on
the offense. Yeah, so it's wild, all right. So the phil
of sixty eight, they've given the report cards out for everybody who hired a
college basketball coach during this cycle, and there were only four a's given out.
There were two A plus'es, and that was Saint Louis hiring Josh Shirtz
and Chris Mack being hired by Charleston, which, by the way, he
is killing it in the portal for you know, for Charleston especially. I
mean he's added I mean, he's basically got his whole team together and they're
not I wouldn't be I would be shocked if they're not the preseason favorite for
that league and probably wouldn't lead to Mac maybe not being there that long,
which you know, I don't know, maybe he loves it there in stays.
But the other a's were a minuses, and that was USC getting Eric
Musselman and Stanford hiring Kyle Smith. So, I mean Musselman, I never
could understand why he wasn't mentioned more for other jobs, and it just took
USC being lucky to get him because of Andy Enfield leaving. So the Bees
calipari in Arkansas was A B plus Pat Kelce Louisville B plus, Chris Holtman
to Paul B plus, Danny Sprinkle B plus, Dusty May a B at
Michigan, Kevin Young B at b yu, Mark Popa B minus, and
then Steve Lutz at Oklahoma State B minus, Conso Martin at Mississippi State B
minus, and then this C minus for Ohio State hiring Jake Diebler, which
kind of surprised me a little bit. C minus for SMU hiring Andy Enfield.
I totally agree with that, but yeah, how I mean Michigan only
getting a BEE for hiring Dusty May that I'm sure that it's a better grade
than Louisville guye, which you know everybody thought. That doesn't mean interesting.
Why do I want Dusty made it fail so bad just so I could feel
vindicated? Why do you want him? Because it's kind of a love hate.
Yeah, maybe he hates a strong word. But like if if Michigan's
doing really well and Mike Woodson is struggling. All you'll hear about, Oh
yeah is go go get Dusty, bring him home, even if they're not
struggling. But Michigan's doing phenomenal and Indiana's just doing good enough. You know
what they could turn into, right, that could turn into the Saderfield Brom
situation where even when Saderfield was fine and Brom was killing it, like the
people were just infatuated with with Brom. But here's hell, Brom was here,
like Bro Brom, like is more of a fixture with Louisville football than
Dusty May. I mean Dusty May was a was a student manager for Bob
Knight, right, Like that's the connection, isn't it. Yes? I
mean I want him to be good enough, but worse than Indiana. What
you do have going for you here, though, is you're gonna get the
trial run right. You'll know, like Michigan may have saved you from a
you know, potentially hiring a bump, you know, because if his first
job from FAU is in Indiana, you know, he may be terrible.
Yeah, And I feel like he's just gonna be mid there, Like he
won't be bad enough to where they can him. I bet I'll have a
flashy season similar to Fau, maybe on a Final four run, but a
year where they're like in the top eight or something all year long, and
then that's just his one go around with them. Well said, but flashy
and dusty may just doesn't fit. But yes, I know what you mean,
Like he'll have a year where he's the darling again. I don't know
why I don't like that guy. He's just too He never did anything to
mexactly exactly. I don't know what it is. All Right, we're out
of time, you guys. Enjoy your night, stay stay safe. If
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