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It's time for Coffee and Company,
fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine

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day. Now here's Nick Coffee.
We're just a couple of days away from

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from a final four that I don't
have any real rooting interest in. I'm

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gonna figure out which way I'm gonna
bet, and that's gonna be what I

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root for. But as far as
the teams here, I don't have a

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strong feeling about any of them.
Don't. I don't like any of them

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as far as like, hey,
that's my When you're a die hard fan

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like we are for the teams around
here, can you really have like a

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legitimate secondary team that you have a
level of invested emotion in, Like I

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know a lot of I'll give you
an example where I think it does make

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sense. A lot of Louisville fans
that grow up in Louisville and it's just

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because they were kind of born into
it, but they went to WKU and

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they like both, like there's a
legitimate, you know, true fanhood with

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both. But it's it's just different. So there are I guess some compare.

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Like I know a lot of folks
who over the years have become like

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even Tony Vinetti, old man Vinetti. He now is a Purdue fan because

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his son John is at Purdue and
they go to a lot of the football

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games and basket I mean, he's
been all in on this Purdue team in

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the tournament. So you know,
when I say I don't I don't like

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him, it's not that I dislike
them. I mean, I love Kevin

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Keats, but I'd be a fraud
to say that I root for NC State

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because I don't mean I'm root against
them, but I don't really care.

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So sometimes it's good to have a
villain involved because he may not have rooting

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interest. But if you have some
hate sports hat, which I think we

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all know is not maybe you know
personal, it's just part of it,

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right, It's entertainment. It gives
you a big time team to root for,

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and it's whoever that villain is playing
against. So I'm really pleased with

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the four teams we have here,
and I hope we get some good games.

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But Yukon clearly is the big is
the big favorite, and I think

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they're gonna be the ones that cut
down the nets on Monday. But uh,

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we can get into this later because
I'm I'm I think I'm gonna take

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n C State money line Austin.
I think I think I'm doing it.

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I think I'm doing it. I
think I'm doing it because you hear the

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dogs. I mean, Purdue as
a beatable team. They're good, they

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deserve to be here, they deserve
all the praise that they've received. Zach

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Dy's been great. But I think
you know, this NC State team,

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I'm now no longer thinking it's just
some magical experience. They're playing good basketball,

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yeah they have. I mean they've
got two good bigs. They're not

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Eatie right Burns and d Ara Dara. Here's the here's the factor. And

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this is an important thing in every
basketball game, obviously, But if n

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C State can can shoot a pretty
good percentage from three, and you've got

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their guards more Sell and Horn and
Dara can knock those down two. I

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mean it's not a weapon that you'd
use a lot, but he can.

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But if it makes a couple the
other day, but he usually makes it.

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Yeah, so you know, I
know they're underdogs, and clearly the

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reason I would take this is because
of the juice that would be there,

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because you know they're not expected to
win. But I think they can.

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You know, this is not a
Cinderella team where you're just waiting for them

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to get creamed by somebody, and
that could happen, I know, but

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NC State's won a national championship for
now. I know that happened many many

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decades ago. That has nothing to
do with this matchup currently. But they

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have caliber play like n C State. If you've watched them when they were

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good this year, which wasn't very
often because their season fell apart, I

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mean, they have capable players and
Purdue again, they deserve to be favorites.

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And I think what they've done to
be able to bounce back with really

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the same team and and you know, I mean, they should have never

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lost to a sixteen seed. But
I think they've played throughout this tournament with

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a chip on their shoulder despite being
a really good team that you know,

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deserves all the praise that they've received. Very few myself inclined. I'm not,

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you know, I was not one
of very few people actually felt comfortable

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in putting them this far into the
tournament because Paydard never made a final four

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and they lost to a six He'd
said last year, and look, there's

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no way around it. When you
watch Purdue, like visually, they don't

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look like they don't look like they're
nearly as good as they actually are.

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So yeah, I'm looking forward to
which we'll get to the Yukon stuff coming

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up in just a moment, because
it worked out perfect. I mean,

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I'm sure he wouldn't classify it as
perfect, and it's far from ideal,

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but this constant attempt to play the
role of not like underdog, because that

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would just be a blatant lie,
but to play the role of we don't

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get enough credit. Nobody likes us. It's Yukon versus the world. The

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flight situation last night just added more
fuel, I mean added more fuel from

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a man Hurley, which you know, not that he needed it, but

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I think if you look at some
of the best competitors, maybe not the

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best athletes as far as accomplishment and
just you know, god given talent,

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but some of the best competitors had
a gift to manufacture motivation that did not

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really exist, and hey, whatever
gives you an edge, big part of

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it. So we'll talk a little
more about those matchups, not only today,

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but we got tomorrow to do that
as well. But let's bring in

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a friend of the show. Have
been a while since we chatted with him.

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He's our man, doctor Eric McElroy
from pro Reha Physical Therapy. Eric.

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How we doing brother? I'm doing
fantastic. How are you Nick?

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Doing good? I gotta get your
thoughts on the uh on the new basketball

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coach here in town for Louisville,
Pat Kelsey. Uh. He's been on

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the job roughly a week now,
off to a good start with recruiting.

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But I mean, how about that
press conference. Man, I feel like

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everybody listening wanted to go line up
and play for this guy. Absolutely.

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I mean, how could you not
want to play for him? I mean,

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uh, you know, I think
that. And you can tell just

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looking at you know, like everybody
looking at videos and some of his past

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you know, you know, practice
videos or whatever it may be, and

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you can tell that energy is real, like there is That's just who he

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is every day and we've all been
around people like that, and it's infectious.

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And I think at this time obviously
we need something like that, uh

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to to help get not just the
fans juice, but whoever, you know,

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the program juiced up and everybody excited. So you know, I think

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that you know, like I think
we talked about off air, you know,

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it's sometimes you just need under the
radar guy who who's hungry, and

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he obviously is and obviously he can
coach. So it just just a matter

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of get him the resources and the
talent to be able to compete at the

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highest level. Yeah, when you
go for a guy that you go when

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you're in that tier of mid major
coaches, those guys clearly if they're getting

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interest from a place like Louisville,
they've done enough in their career to where

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they you know, they've had success, right, And I think where it

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seems to be a really good match
here as far as compatibility is that this

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is someone I think that not to
say others couldn't do it, but I

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feel like the ceiling and really he's
going to utilize every tool that's here in

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a major way. In those tools
that I'm referring to are what makes Louisville

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a really good job that when things
are going well, I mean, it's

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it's one of the best programs in
the country. And I think we all

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knew that. Engaging with fans and
just kind of injecting some life into the

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fan base in the program and really
the city. We knew that was needed.

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But now and once we heard him
and and sort of heard his message

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and whatnot, I mean, it
made a little more clear as to why

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Josh heard. You know, throughout
the entire process wasn't the first or second

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choice, but there was. You
could tell why that conversation. After it

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happened, Josh kept him in mind, right, Oh, absolutely, I

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mean, and who knows, he
may have moved to the top of the

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list. I mean, I think
obviously the big names out there, they're

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appealing. You know, I think
that Louisville was in a sticky situation and

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and you know, but those top
ten to fifteen programs sti't stay down long.

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History tells us that they're going to
bounce back at some point. It

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just takes the right person to come
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I think that, you know,
given the state of the program as it

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was, it's not surprising that some
of your bigger names, if he even

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called him, obviously probably you know, we're speculating, but you know that

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that they may turn away right now. They're in a better situation at that

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moment, and that's okay. Let
somebody else come in. And be willing

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to kind of not say be a
trailblazer, but to kind of get get

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the ship going back in the right
direction. And and uh, you need

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somebody sometimes who's got a chip on
their shoulder and is hungry and and you

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know, isn't I hate to say
complacent, but you know getting there at

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some point in your career. I
know exactly what you mean, because I

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I on my end, have struggled
to kind of to really put into words

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what what you know the I don't
know how to do it without sounding as

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if you know, this guy's just
you know, never believed or dreamed he

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could ever be at this level.
Because I'm sure when you're the ultimate competitor,

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and I don't think you're in that
space as a coach that's won at

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Winthrop, be in college to Charleston, if you're not the ultimate competitor.

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But this is somebody that you know
crawling here, I think you totally.

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I mean, it's it's it's that's
that's clearly not something that's realistic. But

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I mean, like, this is
a guy that was what was fine if

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he wasn't the first or second choice. He knows what he can do and

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knows what he's about, knows the
resources here, and it's gonna work or

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he's gonna die trying, and that, you know, we'll see how it

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all plays out. But the first
week on the job, man, it's

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just it's nice to see. It's
it's it is exciting to be excited again,

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if that makes any sense. And
you know, a long way to

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go before we get to the season. But you know, so far,

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so far, so good. But
I've at least become a little more used

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to watching the NCAA tournament without Louisville
being a big factor, and I'm hoping

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that that changes soon. But we've
got a big matchup in the final four,

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and pun is intended there because we've
got Zach Edie, who's just an

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absolute giant and a hell of a
basketball player, and then DJ Burns,

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who has become the darling of this
NCAA tournament. DJ Burns is listed at

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six nine, two seventy five,
and that may be his actual weight,

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but if you told me he was
three twenty five, I probably would have

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believed you as well. Clearly a
different frame that we you typically see from

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a high level college basketball player,
but it works, man. He's he's

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effective. He's really really good.
And I'm just curious in this, you

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know, the sports medicine world,
you know, when you see I just

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feel like a lot of coaches would
be against going after a guy that looks

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like that, just because they would
assume they weren't they were they weren't going

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to be in good enough shape and
this and that, and I just think

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it's nice to see that. You
you know, you can have somebody with

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a much different frame and a and
a body type that I think a lot

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of coaches would be against even pursuing. And here he is in the final

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four, and you know, I
don't know if it's going to project to

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the next level, but he gets
it done. He does, and you

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know he's not he doesn't need to
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time, and neither does he d
I mean, that's a lot of mass

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to move all the time, and
they will get tired. I do think

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that, you know, from my
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know, what he does when he's
done playing, how you know, because

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he's a you know, six or
nine. I mean he's a big offensive

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line sure, you know, and
like you said, he's probably got to

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be closer to three hundred. But
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he's gotten bigger like that, you
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Now, obviously he's got the ability
on the talent side and the ability,

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and he's very right to use the
word savvy, but he's just a smart

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player. And and that carries over
to his ability to conserve energy and not

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to put himself in situations where you
know he's going to be dragging towards the

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end of the game. And and
so I think that, you know,

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obviously, ideally you would want,
you know, your strength conditioning staff to

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have all your players in quote unquote
tip top shape, but or at least

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appear to be. But genetics do
play a role. And you see this

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with athletes. You see it and
female athletes. You'll look at a pro

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I don't know, soccer player and
you know she's a pro soccer player,

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she looks kind of heavy. But
some of that's genetic, you know,

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It's just the way they carry their
body fat. And there's you know,

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sometimes it's just not a whole lot
they can do about it. So I

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think that those are things that you
know, every individual is different, and

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obviously he's he's able to make it
happen, and he can, you know,

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in his And now we're at the
end of the season and he's still

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rolling and they've had had so many
games between the ACC tournament now and he's

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still able to go out and produce. So you know, it's hard to

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argue that. You know, you
just kind of keep him where he is,

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and he's probably in better shape than
we give him creditude just on sure.

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Heck, I mean, even just
playing at this level and you know,

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putting up the numbers he's putting up. I mean, he may look

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like he's he's sucking win the little
more than some other guys, but man,

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he's still getting it done. Dude
couldn't stop it. And it was

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and it was and it was great
to see it. And you mentioned six

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' nine, and I think just
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other you know, in fact,
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his team are relatively close and hype, but you just wouldn't you wouldn't guess

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that just by visually looking at him. But you know, that makes it

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to where what he can use he
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know, create a little separation.
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is kind of hard to defend him. It'll be a little bit of a

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different story when he's going up against
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is somebody that go ahead? Sorry, no, I just hope they let

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him do that. You know,
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in the game previous, which I
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but there was just some of course
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mean, he's gonna use his size
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hopefully they let these guys play,
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granted to bump. I mean they're
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and they're gonna you know, hopefully
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game flow is a lot better and
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free throw line. I'm with you, and I think what happens is the

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it is harder to defend those guys. I think Edie at times is a

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guy that is almost impossible to defend
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to defend. And I think you
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they they overthink it at times,
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probably times where they just felt like
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was an instinct call for them.
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his size, and you know,
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you know, and I'm certainly not
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a guy that big to be able
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career, I mean, I'm sure
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he he's somebody that again, he's
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sprint up and down the floor.
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not really projecting to the NBA just
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the way his body's held up to
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basketball at the highest level, playing
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if maybe there would there would be
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to think that they hold up.
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him. I mean, he's very
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him, you know, he's not
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in the past with maybe the Sean
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was he was actually taller than Eadie, But but you know those he looks

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for proportionate and I think that helps. He obviously has great endurance because he

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plays majority of the game, doesn't
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kudos to him because that's a lot
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court. He hangs out down there, but I mean in some ways he

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has to. I mean he's not
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down the court just physically or around
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energy. So you know, he
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there's a there's a place for him. I think it would be unfair not

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to give him that shot. I
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you know, again, we're in
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and we've talked about this before and
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workload management. So if you're already
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does it matter. You know,
when you bring in a needy you're going

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to be doing the workload management anyway. So there's got to be times that

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he should be in the game,
even if it's just defensively his pure size

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and rebounds and so on and so
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is changing, you know, I
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to make some changes to help kind
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player back into play. Uh And
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club's looking at as they project for
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the NBA is a little more modern
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guy. I mean, I'm that's
what's That's what I've really loved about watching

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Burns is because he's a throwback.
Because he's not quick, he's savvy,

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he can catch it, he can
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passer, just a really smart player, and NC State can play through him,

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and you just don't see that as
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with Edie, I mean there's gonna
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realize, hey, yeah, we
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know what, we don't have the
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tempo that the opponent wants to play, right, because if we play them

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at their game, they're just better. Well, hey, you know,

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there's a role for Eddie where you
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hey, we're slowing it down and
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that you know, even in the
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faster. I mean, that's that's
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play. But I mean, I
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identified role and it wouldn't probably be
something that leads to him being an All

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Star. But I'm with you.
I mean, I feel like you'd be

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wise as an NBA franchise to bring
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he probably will be a much different
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guy who's the I mean, I'm
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was with the Grizzlies and he's I
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but a huge like post player.
What long hair? Oh oh, he's

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gonna drive me crazy. But I
mean is he Is he an older guy

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or a younger guy? Well,
he's probably middle now, Oh my goodness,

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proceed because I'm gonna look it up
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I start thinking about names, I'm
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gonna die tryn Well, I think
about him. I mean he's huge,

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seven two or seven three. Uh, so you know we're not talking about

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too far off now. He's also
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Edie will put on more sides.
You can tell that he's got the ability

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to I mean, his legs are
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upper body a little bigger, uh, and then he could be a major

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force. I mean we're talking about
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he's not not as big as YAO
mean tall as you. I know,

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it's a different era, but you
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that going for him. I think
there's got to be a place because there's

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other guys that aren't much shorter than
meeting that have made it work. All

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right, one more question for you, and when it comes to this Final

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four stuff, the the Yukon Huskies
did not land last night until six thirty

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Eastern time in Phoenix, and they
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we always talk about rest being really
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performance and whatnot. These guys are
college kids. You know, they've got

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to still like they have a couple
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that this could impact their performance?
Is that? Is that fair? I

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mean, again, probably not much
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But am I foolish to think that
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that's not going to be anything that
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it's you know, it's hard to
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what are their obligations that they have
throughout the day. You know that other

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teams have been able to rest for
so do they have to get up earlier

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to go to media gations or are
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What are their scheduled practice times and
so on and so forth. I know,

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honestly, this has been a little
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tournament. You've had multiple coaches talk
about some of the scheduling and the inconsistencies

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with it and how that's impacting rest. And you know, as the tournament

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goes on, I mean, yes, the amount of rest they need is

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going to continue to grow. I
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and play. When not they're practicing
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period of time, and so I
think that any coach is going to try

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to squeeze out as much time as
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to say it wouldn't impact them would
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think that if they lose, should
that be the number one excuse? No,

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absolutely not. I think that you
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from the credit of the team that
wins the game and you can't blame it

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all on the fact that you had
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I do think that, you know, you can't ignore it. Uh And

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again it depends on what kind of
adjustments they may have made for the obligations

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they may have once they arrived.
If they're if they're doing that for them

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where they can get you know,
extended rest time or change their practice time

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or whatever. Maybe you know,
maybe that that that will help out and

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minimize that effect. All right,
who do you think wins at all?

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Who's cutting on the nets on Monday? Uh? You know what, I

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don't know if anybody can figure out
Edie. Uh So, if Purdue can

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shoot the ball, I'm gonna go
with Purdue. Uh Yukon's hard to pass

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up, but I'm gonna go with
Purdue this year. I think that they're

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they you know, at some point
they deserve it. Uh So maybe if

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for that reason, I hope they
win because they've been such a long drought

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since they've made any noise. Uh
and such a passion rich basketball school.

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So uh, I guess my gut's
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And I'll stick with that, all
right, Good good to catch up

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the Eric. Appreciate your time as
always, and we'll talk soon. All

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right, my friend, all right, all right, that's doctor Eric McElroy,

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Prori episcotherapy. Good catching up with
him. We had to do a

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couple of back to back with doctor
Binn's last couple of weeks and schedules just

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in the line. But again,
always good to catch up with our man,

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doctor McElroy. Quick break, we'll
come back, keep this thing rolling

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along, talk a little more about
the uh this list of things that Yukon

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is using to uh really, I
guess, you know, give themselves motivation

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that it's Yukon versus the world,
which it's all silly stuff, at least

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most of it. But hey again, whatever works. And also we'll talk

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more about the Transfer portal, because
you know, throughout a three hour show,

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especially this time of year, when
the portal just officially opened, what

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was it a couple of weeks ago, I mean it's I mean since the

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show started. There's some new things
to share, so we'll get into all

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that. And the Kentucky we're gonna
read the comments from Kentucky fans as to

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All right, So a couple of
things that have that have broke during the

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show today. Eric Musselman leaving Arkansas
to go to USC. That had been

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h That had been the belief as
far as that exchange for quite some time

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once it was clear that Andy Enfield
was going to go to SMU, I

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mean USC. I mean muss has
been trying to get out of Fayeteville for

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a while and couldn't get other jobs
that were open, and I think the

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perfect fit opened up for him,
and now he's headed back to the West

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Coast where he's from. Good coach, But uh, I don't want to

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get sued, and I don't think
I will. But like it is,

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it is a surprise to me how
much it kind of became public, Like

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what what Eric Musselman could like be
into that would make you know, an

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academic institute of this caliber at Louisville
or even you know elsewhere not want him

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to be the coach? You know
what? It is Austin. You don't

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have to say it, but just
give me. I know, I don't

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know, I don't. Oh okay, well well little little bugger sugar.

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Yeah, I mean that's that's and
like if you've ever seen him on the

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sideline, you could like totally believe
it, you know what I'm saying.

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So I don't look I got some
nose candy. Yeah, Yeah, that's

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that's that's you know, that's the
belief that that that is he's you know,

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that's just kind of part maybe part
of his you know, daily routine

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or something. I'm not sure.
I mean, are we surprised he takes

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his shirt off at you? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like the

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the the the behavior of of muss
uh. You know, let's just let's

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just say it on a little bit
different gash exactly. Like I'll give you

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five coaches and I'll tell you one
might you know, uh might be into

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that kind of thing, and you'd
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So with all that said, I
think he's a hell of a coach

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and I think USC got a good
one. But for those sharing the Arkansas

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list, to me, I mean, are are you trying to like act

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like I mean, I'm sad that
Arkansas is gonna probably get Chris Beard,

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Jerome Tang or Will Wade. I
mean I'm not because I've already fallen in

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love with a guy named Pat Kelsey, so that's where my allegiance lies now.

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And I didn't care about where those
guys end up. Although of those

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three, I was never really I
just knew Louisville was not gonna consider Chris

406
00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.559
Beard. And I know some say, well, that's stupid. They should

407
00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.240
have. Maybe you're right, he's
a good coach, but like, because

408
00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:33.519
I know that they're not going to
do it, and I know that I'm

409
00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:37.640
not going to speak it into existence, I just never really got all that

410
00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.720
fired up about it, because you
know, it would just been it would

411
00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:42.319
have been a waste of energy from
me. The one coach out of those

412
00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:47.599
three that I really like a lot
is Jerome Tang, and if he ends

413
00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:48.359
up at Arkansas, I think I'll
do well there. I really do.

414
00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:53.079
But I wouldn't be shocked if if
he is still at case date, because

415
00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.079
it certainly sounds like Chris Beard is
going to be the guy that Arkansas goes

416
00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:59.359
after. So we shall see.
But then you got to keep in mind,

417
00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:03.240
like other jobs open up because of
this, like the coaching carousel has

418
00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.119
not It's not come to a full
stop just yet. Like the other piece

419
00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:08.359
of breaking news that just came down
here in the last ten minutes or so,

420
00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:11.759
Hayley van Lyfth is leaving LSU.
So she will be back in the

421
00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.920
portal for the second consecutive year where
she ends up no clue. You know,

422
00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:21.039
she's obviously a good player, and
she had a better year at LSU

423
00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:23.240
than I realized. As far as
numbers, she averaged about twelve points a

424
00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:30.480
game, but man, she just
got I mean when the eyeballs were on

425
00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:34.359
here like they've never been before,
which was Monday night during that game against

426
00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:38.960
Iowa. I mean, it is
kind of sad. Not that I have

427
00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:41.720
like a lot of sympathy for her, because you know, I mean I

428
00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:44.559
don't wish her any ill will or
anything like that, but I mean,

429
00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:48.440
look, it's it's basketball. It
happens. But when there was as much

430
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:51.559
as she was already a star at
Louisville, hell, she was a star

431
00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:52.799
before she got to Louisville, right, I Mean I say this all the

432
00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.960
time. Her highlight mixes in high
school when she was playing with Kobe Bryant's

433
00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.799
daughter and stuff, and she was
she was. I believe she's still the

434
00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:03.839
highest ranked commit to ever or the
highest rank recruit ever come to Louisville.

435
00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:07.640
But I as somebody who used to
dabble in the internet world as far as

436
00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:11.119
you know, internet monetization views and
all that, it used to be how

437
00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:12.960
I would make a living. I
mean, you know, I was pretty

438
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:17.839
familiar with sharing highlight mixes of players
that were either considering Louisville, that went

439
00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:19.880
to Louisville for basketball, football,
whatever. There's no doubt in my mind

440
00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:25.799
nobody entered their U of l athletic
experience at the University of Louisville with more

441
00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:29.599
YouTube views than Hayley ven left.
And you know, she's a good player,

442
00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:36.079
but she chose to go ring chase
and they didn't get the ring.

443
00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:40.400
But I think her leaving and wanting
to be done probably you know, confirms

444
00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:42.400
what a lot of us expected was
with that. She probably might have regretted

445
00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:45.759
that decision a little bit. So
where she ends up, I don't know.

446
00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:51.240
I highly highly doubt we see a
reunion here in Louisville. But hey,

447
00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:56.960
given like her, I cannot pinpoint
any specific thing that led to people

448
00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:02.920
assuming that there was some real bad
blood. I mean, she left,

449
00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:04.920
but I don't know why she'd be
bitter about Louisville. She had a great

450
00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:08.519
experience here, made a lot of
money through nil and they won. But

451
00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:14.000
you know what she'd said about Middle
Tennessee State whenever the bracket was unveiled,

452
00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:15.880
and just I mean, I know
Louisville fans feel a certain way about her,

453
00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.079
and I get I don't I can't
speak for anybody by myself, but

454
00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.599
I get the sense that there are
many fans that you know, realized when

455
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.039
she was here you liked her because
she was playing for Louisville and like,

456
00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.079
if she was on another team,
you would probably not like her. And

457
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.039
then she dumped us, left and
went to join a team that, I

458
00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:34.680
believe, in all honesty, is
one of the most hated teams in women's

459
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:38.559
sports ever. Hates a strong word. But like like Kim Maulky, is

460
00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:44.160
the reason vast And I know other
people have their thoughts on an angel and

461
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:47.440
all that, but I think the
reason why a lot of people feel the

462
00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:49.480
way they feel about LSU women's basketball
is mostly because Kim Maulki, not because

463
00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:52.960
of Haley or any other player.
It's just because of that. So anyways,

464
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.400
we'll see. But maybe she goes
to UK just to kind of,

465
00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.160
you know, oh, be a
villain. Just just go ahead and live

466
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:02.880
long enough to see yourself become the
villain. I kind of hope she does

467
00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:06.440
go to UK, just because that
would like that would be that would that

468
00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:11.759
would set everybody here that loved women's
college basketball absolutely on fire. Jeff Jeff

469
00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:15.839
did not have a good year compared
to his standard, but hopefully he can

470
00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.000
reload and they got that new coach, yeah Kentucky. Yes, and he's

471
00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:19.920
a good coach too, by the
way. Kenny Brooks is a really good

472
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:25.160
coach with Virginia Tech. And you
know, I think Kentucky women's basketball will

473
00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:27.240
be a lot better under him.
And you know, look, I'd love

474
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:30.559
for that rivalry to get real heated, and it hasn't really been much of

475
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:34.720
a rivalry because Louisville honestly is dominated
like one time, yeah, kind of

476
00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:38.240
like the men's yeah rivalry for Kentucky, they've dominated us, and on the

477
00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:41.039
women's side, it's been who counts
men's basketball? Yeah, I mean,

478
00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:45.240
that's yeah, it's just for fun. It's not women's tournaments going on.

479
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:47.079
We just hope the guys go out
there and play and have fun. We

480
00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:49.039
don't even I don't even when Wolve
Kentucky playing basketball. I don't even look

481
00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:51.720
at the score, Like it's not
what it's about. For me. It's

482
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:55.039
about just everybody out there having fun
and showing good a good sportsmanship. You

483
00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:57.559
know what I'm saying. That's what
it's about. Love each other exactly,

484
00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:00.680
exactly, that's what it's all about. All right, So real quick before

485
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.039
we get to our next break,
And we went a little along there in

486
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.559
the first segment, So these will
be some short segments, but we'll try

487
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:10.799
to get this clock management sorted out
in the in the five o'clock hour.

488
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:15.640
But let's talk about the Yukon list
of you know, I mean, they're

489
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.880
not even really big deals, but
things that they're probably probably listing to fuel

490
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:26.440
this narrative that is Yukon versus the
world. So we'll start with the latest,

491
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:27.680
and that was last night. They
did not have a plane to fly

492
00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:33.039
to Arizona, and the NC double
A is fully in charge of travel,

493
00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:38.039
so I'm sure the NC DOUBLEA had
really no control over this plane situation.

494
00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:41.920
But you know what, Dan Hurley, he's not gonna believe that. He

495
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:45.279
thinks that the NC double A is
screwing Ucon. They don't want you Ukon

496
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:47.960
to win it all again, so
let's let's make sure they don't have a

497
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.480
flight to get out. So what
ended up happening was they had a plane

498
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:57.880
in Cincinnati that flew out. An
Allegiant plane flew from Cincinnati to Connecticut to

499
00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:03.640
pick up the huh Kies and take
them to Phoenix, and they did not

500
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.960
arrive until I think it was six
thirty in the morning Eastern Standard time.

501
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:14.839
And what I loved about this whole
situation was that, I mean, they're

502
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:18.480
playing into it, and maybe they
truly do believe it, like to their

503
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:23.480
core, that everybody is just downplaying
them, and you know, they know

504
00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:26.039
they're good, but they just don't
want them around, like you know,

505
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.359
there'd be no scenario, is that
me? Sorry, There'd be no scenario

506
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:34.319
where anybody would claim Yukon is not
good. They're great. They're they're actually

507
00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:37.480
But I think that's actually the root
of all this. When I'm trying and

508
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:40.480
I'm all over the place right now. But I'm saying, I think because

509
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:45.759
Yukon realizes they could, they're likely
going to be back to back national champions

510
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.920
that hasn't happened since Florida did it, you know, nearly twenty years ago.

511
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:52.200
But like that, you don't,
they don't. You don't the sports

512
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:55.039
center doesn't lead with them, like
they're just not as they're not talked about

513
00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:57.119
like another team. If another team
was doing the exact same thing that was

514
00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.920
a bigger brand from a different league, I do think there'd be more notoriety,

515
00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:03.440
So, you know, I think
that's kind of the root of it.

516
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:11.200
But Dan Hurley, he tweeted at
one eighteen am, wheels not up

517
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.200
yet, like he's letting people know, yeah, you guys won't believe this.

518
00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:15.559
Now we got a plane here,
we can't even get off the ground.

519
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.960
And then the Yukon Basketball twitter account
shared this graphic of a bus.

520
00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:23.119
I guess it's like the team bus
waiting to go to the airport, and

521
00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:30.279
it just shows different different tweets from
people covering college basketball just acknowledging how you

522
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:36.000
know, there's the NCAA or whoever
makes these decisions just trying to stick it

523
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:40.359
to Yukon, which I don't think
anybody's doing that, But I do understand

524
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.359
the vast difference in like, if
this was Kentucky doing this, and I

525
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.680
know Kentucky's a better program, trust
me, Like they've done more and this

526
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:55.359
was Duke. If this was you
know, one of the og blue bloods,

527
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.799
it would lead Sports Center every night
as far as them, you know,

528
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:01.119
when football's over and what. And
that just doesn't happen with Yukon.

529
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:07.640
And I don't know if it's because
Yukon is not a team that has a

530
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:09.319
historic tradition. I mean again,
they've got a bunch of titles. They're

531
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:13.119
up there, right, I mean, let's see right now. Mean obviously

532
00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:19.079
Yukon has let me see here.
We just talked about this yesterday. Yukon's

533
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.799
first title came in ninety nine,
and they currently have five right now.

534
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:28.079
They could get six, that would
put them two behind Kentucky. Wow.

535
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:30.640
And they've all done it since nineteen
ninety nine. So like they are not

536
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.319
only in the elite status when it
comes to the ultimate accomplishment, which is

537
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:39.039
national championships. They've done it quicker
than anybody, and yet they still kind

538
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:45.039
of don't carry that that that weight
the way a bigger brand would and they

539
00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:49.960
have a huge fan base too,
by the way, So I just find

540
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.880
it fascinating and it kind of makes
me like Dan Hurle even more that like

541
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:57.680
he's probably believing this to a certain
extent, but also kind of leaning into

542
00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:00.240
it and just kind of having fun
with it. But yeah, I mean,

543
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:04.519
whatever gives you an edge, right, I mean, everybody's trying to

544
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:08.440
compete, and sometimes whenever you know
you are a twenty point favorite or something

545
00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:14.759
like that, you know you're gonna
need some added motivation. But you know,

546
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:17.559
one thing I will say, though, this is true, Yukon was

547
00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:21.759
the number one overall seat and it
wasn't even close. And there's no scenario

548
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.920
where you could make the case they
did not have the toughest bracket and they

549
00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:28.599
got out of it. I forgot
about this last year when they were in

550
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:32.279
Vegas. There was stuff stolen from
their rooms. I remember that. Yeah,

551
00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:35.559
And again Sports Center never leads with
them, and that's true, by

552
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.039
the way, Like that's Yukon fans
are leaning into this, and they got

553
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:39.799
more time on their hands to really
focus it. But they showed a previous

554
00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:44.319
year where a team was kind of
you know, rolling on a two year

555
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.279
run like this, and it was
a much bigger deal nationally, whereas Yukon

556
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:51.480
it just kind of lightly gets mentioned. Wow. So yeah, I mean

557
00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:54.000
it's all silly, to be honest
with you, but hey, whatever gives

558
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:58.759
you an egg. And that's silly
considering the kempa years and the chef has

559
00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:01.440
years. They were all over the
well and this this is something that may

560
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:07.279
sound silly to some, but we
all know how important TV network like TV

561
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:09.599
network coverage is, right, Like, that's I mean, that's really what

562
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:14.079
For those who think college basketball college
football has been ruined with realignment, it

563
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:19.840
all goes to TV TV contracts and
whatnot and the fact that there's no Big

564
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:22.519
East games at all on any ESPN
channels. You can't tell me that that's

565
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.039
not why they're not lead with the
on Sports Center. They used to be

566
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:28.519
on Big on the Big Monday and
all that. Now it's all Monday.

567
00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:31.280
Yeah. Now they've got to show
Fox Fox, Fox, you know,

568
00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:36.360
highlights when they show Yukon, And
they're going to do that, but I

569
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:38.360
don't think they want to do it. We used to be a fine country.

570
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:42.719
We did basketball, used to be
on the Letter network. Good stuff,

571
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:44.079
all right, quick, break,
we'll come back and wrap up be

572
00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:47.159
four o'clock hour right here on Sports
Talk seven ninety now back to coffee and

573
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:53.239
Company fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk
seven nine day. So we'll get back

574
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:58.840
into the portal stuff coming up in
the five o'clock hour. But the name

575
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:00.400
we led with start to show is
John L. Davis, the number one

576
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:06.000
player in the portal according to at
least a couple of different of those outlets

577
00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:09.719
that do rank players in the portal
FAU transfer. I don't know where he

578
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:13.400
ended up on All American lists,
but I mean it was an all American

579
00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:15.880
caliber campaign. When you look at
the numbers he put up for it seem

580
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:20.360
that you know, wasn't great,
but they made a final four of the

581
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.559
year before and he was a big
part of that. So Louisville is in

582
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:27.800
the mix. And the latest report
is that Michigan, as you could expect

583
00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:31.320
with Dusty May leaving FAU to go
up north, that the early leader for

584
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:36.760
every one of these transfers seems to
be Michigan for obvious reasons. But Louisville

585
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.239
and Pat Kelsey not only is him
being a and there really was nothing to

586
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:46.239
throw out there to make it truly
you know hit as the kids say,

587
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:51.920
Do they still say that, Austin, I think, so, I'm not

588
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:55.400
a kid anymore. Well you're you're
you're the younger generation of this show right

589
00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:59.320
now, I think people say,
yeah, HiT's different, Yeah, it's

590
00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:00.880
you know, it hits to Yeah, we're still We're still hip, We're

591
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:05.519
still hit. There was no numbers
to reference really that would make it that

592
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:07.559
make it seem this way. But
he recruited really well at Charleston. Now

593
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.480
again that doesn't mean he was landing
with Donalds all Americans, but I think

594
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:15.079
he had a few top one fifty
recruits during his time there, and that's

595
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:19.079
not something people get super excited about
around here for programs like Louisville or Kentucky,

596
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:22.719
but at Charleston that's almost unheard of. So, you know, now

597
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:28.880
he's selling a different program, and
he's selling what Louisville can can provide.

598
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:31.760
And I'm sure he's got to dance
around it as far as the specifics and

599
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:37.199
what he can say. But money
nil and on three says that Louisville is

600
00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:42.079
making a really good push and it
maybe they landed him, which would be

601
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:44.039
great, But one of the things
that one of our listeners had mentioned.

602
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.519
Allison shout out to her for remonemi
of this in Austin as well, that

603
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:53.239
Kron Davis is the cousin of Jenelle
Davis, who's you know, this really

604
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:58.079
good player that might end up here. And I don't I don't want to

605
00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:01.159
say this and give anybody any kind
of indication and that I'm leaking some news

606
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:06.199
or anything like that. But Karon
Davis is in the portal. But he's

607
00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:08.320
still here. Like he posted something
on his Instagram, I think even yesterday

608
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:10.519
about him, you know, just
showing he was working out of the facility,

609
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which of course he has the ability
to do. But you got thirteen

610
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scholarships, three of them are taken
up. He got ten right now?

611
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Was it crazy to think that,
like, maybe you could incentivize John L.

612
00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:28.719
Davis by saying, well, we'll
keep your cousin around to I mean,

613
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I don't know if that's realistic,
but I mean, Caron Davis because

614
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of how bad that thing was handled
by everybody else outside of him. I

615
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mean, he kind of became like
a fan favorite, did he not,

616
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Dude just showing up to games in
the crowd, and you know, he

617
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was getting the cameras at home.
And now, well, all that said,

618
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:51.840
I do know that you know he
I don't know what led to it,

619
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but he was dismissed from the team, and Kenny just was really stupid

620
00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:59.920
about how he handled it. And
I think the wanting to not put up

621
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player out there as being dismissed that
is that that's that that's a good thing.

622
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.280
I mean, I think you're he
was doing that with good intentions and

623
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there's nothing wrong with that at all. But the way he did not communicate

624
00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:15.440
it at all about it and had
no like there was it left everybody wondering

625
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:17.400
what the hell's going on because it's
just not normal for a guy to just

626
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:21.559
no longer be on the bench but
be in the stands at games. So,

627
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:24.159
you know, it became it kind
of was a world of its own,

628
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:27.440
right, this whole Koran David,
like, what the hell's going on

629
00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:30.280
with this guy? Like nothing makes
sense? Well then just not being transparent

630
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:35.760
enough and not you know not And
people put some of this on Zach Greenwell,

631
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:38.519
the sid and I can tell you
firsthand he doesn't get he does not

632
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:42.880
get full control over what is sent
out. He does about certain things with

633
00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:45.159
the press release. But you know, Kenny Payne told him essentially, yeah,

634
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:47.360
he's he's leaving his transfer and we're
gonna put that out there. Well,

635
00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:50.840
then turns out that like there wasn't
the conversation. He didn't want to

636
00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:52.920
transfer, so there was a statement
made and Kron Davis was like, yeah,

637
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:58.039
that's not what happened, and easily
could have been handled much better,

638
00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:00.920
but it wasn't. And just because
of it, and Kron Davis seemingly handling

639
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:05.320
it, you know, better than
anybody else after the fact, made him

640
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.199
kind of a fan favorite. So
again, I would do that. It'd

641
00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:09.800
be one thing if you were on
a scholarship crunch they got ten to give

642
00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:13.760
out, Yeah, you just pass
them out, will Yeah. So all

643
00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:15.159
right, we got another hour to
go. Sorry for that really short segment.

644
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.800
I'll try my best to keep this, uh, keep this hour much

645
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more more on track. Maybe,
Yeah, sometimes it happens when you just

646
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get divibing. So stick with us
right here. Coffee and Company. Feilbeth

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