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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.
Look, I absolutely expected this. I

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expected that whenever I shared information that
I know to be true that Louisville reached

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out to Coleman Hawkins earlier today and
told him we're not gonna host you on

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a visit, We're no longer going
to, you know, go in that

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direction. I'm not sure what they
said. I'm sure they were nice and

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kind, but it was Louisville that
ended this. And again I know that

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to be true, but I know
what it sounds like to some, so

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I expected Kentucky fans to, you
know, act like, oh wow,

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you just just take the l which. Look, both things can be true.

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Louisville would have been better with a
talented player like Coleman Hawkins as far

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as just overall talent, they would
have gotten a big bump I think from

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those that you know are trying to
project who's going to really be a factor

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next year in college basketball. I
doubt there would have been anybody penciling them

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into a Final four, but he
would have been in big addition, and

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if he would have come to Louisville. I would have said, hell,

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yeah, that's huge. But I
think the situation is pretty easy to understand

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bringing him in, not because of
anything wrong with him, but it would

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have made some others look to leave. And I think they got as much

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of a confirmation about that as you
can from one player. And I don't

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know who it is. If I
did, I probably wouldn't tell you.

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But I don't know who it is. And there might have been another player

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I was told that that one would
have left, or at least really you

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know, maybe they would have had
a change of heart, but they would

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have probably tried to go elsewhere just
because maybe it would have been too crowded.

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I mean, I assume that was
that would be what led to them

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doing that. And there's another that
might have considered moving on just because again,

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their role probably you know, changes
if you add Coleman Hawkins. So

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I think when it came down to
is Pat Kelsey really weigh in the options

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here right, Like, Hey,
I've got a pretty good situation going here.

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I like what I've what I have
as far as personnel, which I

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know that they do, and it
sounds like chemistry is in a good spot

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and for those like mocking that,
like that's fine, Like I don't mean,

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I'm not surprised. And if you
think that's nonsense that chemistry can even

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be developed this quickly, then like
that's your opinion, that's I don't.

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I do not. I don't have
an issue with you having that opinion.

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Don't really care. I mean,
I think you can have chemistry before you

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play together. Like when I say
chemistry, I don't mean because they're really

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gelling on the floor. I mean
that they they're getting along, getting to

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know each other. And some may
think that's corny, but like having a

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collective buy in from a from a
team is important. And maybe the UFL

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staff got to feel that Hawkins was
somebody that could potentially disrupt some chemistry,

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or maybe they just felt like it's
not about him, it's just about,

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hey, we kind of like where
we are. Let's keep it that way,

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and you know, not potentially disrupt
chemistry, but also not lose anybody

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that's already on board. So again, both things can be true. Louisville

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clearly like they're not disinterested in Coleman
Hawkins because they don't think he's good.

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It's just a matter of balancing your
roster. In managing your roster, that

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is that's such. I mean,
we talk about how different college basketball in

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college football is now because of the
portal and nil, but really what it

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comes down to is managing your roster, right, Like, you have to

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make sure you're keeping the guys you
want to keep, letting them know.

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I guess delicately that you want to
keep them, but you are also going

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to go after other players and you
don't want them to be bothered by that.

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Like you got to, you got
to, you got a massage,

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egos, You got to make sure
guys feel like they're being taken care of.

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And I think you've always had to
do that to an extent, But

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previously there was no like what are
you gonna do? Cry about it?

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You couldn't leave, and if you
did, you'd have to sit out,

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and most wouldn't do that. So
the fact that players can just up and

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leave puts coaches in a spot to
where, yeah, you can. You

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know, you could think to yourself, well, hey, if you're if

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you're bothered by me bringing somebody else
in here because you don't want to compete,

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then you're not built for this.
You don't you don't you're not worthy

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of being a part of my program. It's it's all fine and and you

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know, and and cool to say
that, right, but at the end

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of the day, coaches need to
win. So like, if four dudes

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transfer that are really good players because
they're bothered by the way you're managing the

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roster and by the way you're bringing
in players, yeah, that might be

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a bad look on them, but
you know what, you probably need them

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to win, and you need to
win or you won't have a job.

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So like it's this is professional sports
now. It is. And Coleman Hawkins

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was gonna come to the Louisville was
going to visit today and they told him

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thanks, but no thanks. I'm
sure they didn't say that, but you

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know what I mean. And if
he was honest, he would tell you

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that he would He would absolutely confirm, if he was honest, that it

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was them that ended this whole thing. In fact, he kind of did

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with his tweet and then he deleted
it, which was, you know,

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everything happens for a reason, like
disappointed, Like that doesn't prove I guess

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that they that they backed off,
but I mean they did, and who

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knows, maybe we'll look back and
think, man, that was a bad

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idea, Like maybe they'll be underwhelming
in the front court, and Coleman Hawkins

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goes on to Kansas State, which
is where, which is where he's now

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going to visit. And you know, we'll regret that they didn't make it

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happen and didn't find a way to
make it work. But this was a

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Louisville Pat Kelsey his staff decision,
and you know, we'll see if it

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ends up panning out for him.
I've said since I got back from vacation.

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When I was gone, they added
the thirteenth player, Big Frank Frank

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Anselom, and I think this is
a tournament caliber roster. I really like

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the personnel. We have no clue
how it's all going to work out.

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It's a big unknown, but I
think fans can be justifiably excited and not

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feel like they're just realizing it's gonna
be better than Kenny Payne and just you

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know, being homers, Like I
think, on paper, you've got a

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team that you really like. And
I don't think I did a good job

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of really laying out what I was
trying to to to say when describing sort

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of the makeup of a lot of
these guys. But you know, and

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this is nothing to do with Colemenhawkins, but you've got dudes like Corn Johnson,

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who you know has been at Washington, was a pretty highly ranked recruit

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who you know hasn't been able to
find a starting spot at Washington. You

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know, he's got a chip on
his shoulder, he's motivated and it's probably

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why he left Washington. You know, you've got Javon Hadley, who played

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at junior college after a unsuccessful first
year of D one basketball at Northeastern University,

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Well then he goes to Colorado,
had two really good years there.

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Like he's he's a guy who really
had to grind and work his ass off

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to get to where he is.
You know, these aren't gonna like I

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don't think you're gonna have any like
Prima Donna divas. I think these are

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guys that are going to appreciate what
they have here at Louisville. And I

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know Louisville's been terrible the last few
years, right, not many wins any

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time. Louisville basketball has been discussed
in recent years when it comes to national

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conversations about the sport. It's about
like how bad they were, and it's

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shocking for folks to see Louisville go
through what they went through the last few

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years. But fan excitement is up. There's going to be I think,

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really big crowds at the young and
I think this is a group of these

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I think you have a group of
players here that are going to be fueled

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by that and really, like you
know, like I know how bad it

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was in recent years, and trust
me, I know nobody went to games.

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But even if you got sixteen to
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in and night out next season,
that's going to be a lot more fans

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than any of these guys have played
in front of. And I think that'll

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make it to where, you know, it's good to fuel them. So

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Colemenhawkin's not visiting, and will they
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I don't know. Again, I
don't know what they were gonna do

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anyways to try to make it work, but apparently they had a plan but

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decided not to Follele through with it. I still think if you were going

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to add one more player, like
if you could like that, there was

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some type of a I don't know
some type of a hardship thing you could

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do with scholarships to get an extra
one because the guys are hurt. I

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don't know if that exists, but
I think if you really had a spot

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you would add somebody. It would
be point guard. I think I think

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adding a backup point guard would be
you know, if you could add one

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guy, I think that at that
spot would be would would make the most

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sense because Chucky hepburn. You know
he can. He's going to be your

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point guard, He's going to be
your leader. He started every game at

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point guard at what Wisconsin during his
entire career there. But and Korin Johnson

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can play the point. I mean, I think even Terrence Edwards Junior can

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run the point if need be.
So you know, I'm not really bummed

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or bitter because, to be honest
with you, and again, it's not

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just because I don't think coleman Augus
is good. He is, trust me,

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he would have. He would have
absolutely made this team more talented,

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more dangerous because he's he's a good
player. But I guess I never really

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got my hopes up because for some
reason, I just never felt like it

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was gonna happen. Even when the
visit was scheduled and Louisville was reported to

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be the leader and really the only
legit option for him. I still just

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never felt like it was gonna happen. And you know now it's not gonna

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happen. All right. It is
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All right. This text says Nick,

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if guys are getting paid, do
you think they have a right to protest?

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Another teammate being added, this is
business. Now put feelings aside.

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Do they have Do they have a
right to protest? I don't know if

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anybody protested, but and it's not
I don't know that's a good question.

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I mean, they can express concerns
about their role and about their playing time

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with their coach if they see that
they're being potentially recruited over. But you

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know, it all comes down to
action, meaning are you actually like you

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know, coaches have to either realize
that there's certain players they might need to

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babysit a little bit and kind of
pump up their ego and like, you

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know, gass them up a little
bit and say, hey, no we're

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not working, we still have big
plans for you, you know. Or

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there's some guys who they may just
call their bluff and say, look,

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if you don't like it, you
can leave. So I think it really

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depends on each each you know,
every play different and honestly, every player

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probably has a different level of value
to you, right. I mean there

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may be somebody that doesn't put up
twenty points a night, but you realize,

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hey, this guy fills a role
that nobody else on this team could

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and we need that. So again, it comes down to roster management.

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But yeah, I mean, if
they're getting paid, it doesn't mean they're

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not going to still want to play. Like, guys want to get paid

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and they want to play, and
I think honestly both are important but the

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dudes who get who are going to
get paid good money or are getting paid

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good money because they're expected to play, So it didn't happen all that often

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at least I don't think. I
mean, if somebody's on a million dollar

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INIL deal and then their role like
diminishes, I mean, they're probably upset

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because they want to play, but
you know they're still getting paid. So

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I mean, even if everything you
said is true, right, this is

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business, put feelings aside. That's
what the end of that tech said.

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They still have the ability to just
walk away. And as a coach,

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you now have to make an educate
guests. Are they really going to do

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that? And if they do,
are you cool with it? Are is

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that something that would be detrimental to
your team? Could you move on from

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that? Like everybody's replaceable to an
extent for the most part. But you

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know, if you tell a player, hey, it's business now, you're

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being taken care of within ile put
your feelings aside. Like if a coach

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said that to a player, I
don't think a coach now in twenty twenty

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four could be surprised at that player
left. And you just got to have

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you got to figure out how to
balance that, right, you got to

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call their bluff at times, or
you got to realize, hey, no

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matter what, this guy's always going
to be wanting more, and I hope

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he does leave, all right?
How this tick? Says Nick, what

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do you think about the UK fans
acting like Barnhardt was savvy in hiring Pope

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instead of Hurley. I've seen a
little bit of that on on on Twitter,

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meaning Kentucky fans saying they dodged a
bullet like with Hurley, which again,

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I think it really depends on I
mean, if you're giving Mitch Barnhart

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like credit, then you're you're I
think you're mistaken, because that would insinuate

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that Mitch Barnhart decided not to go
after Danny Hurley and that he wanted Mark

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Pope because Mitch Barnhart was well aware
that he was that Hurley was going to

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be in the mix for the Lakers
like that. That's not real, that's

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not that's not true, Like that
didn't happen. So I would say,

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if you're somebody who looks at it
as a Kentucky fan and says to yourself,

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well, you know what we could
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and he might have had a he
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yes to Kentucky because it was an
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money. But then the Lakers called
and then he decided to go. Yeah,

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I mean, that would have been
an un That would have been an

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unfortunate situation because you know, he
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now, and then he's bailing,
and then you'd have to start over.

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it is Kentucky. You would think
that they'd be able to go get

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a good coach, but you know, the first two guys they were in

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on and wanted they didn't get,
so again, it would have been the

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ultimate. I mean, let's be
real if that happened, Like if they

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did get Hurley because they threw the
bag at him and he couldn't say no,

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and he's here for what six weeks, and then he leaves for the

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Lakers and they got to start all
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Like let's say he brought all the
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brought all you know, God Jaden
Quaint's to commit. I mean, let's

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Leah McNeely. Of course, who's
at Yukon now. Like if that roster

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was in place for the last few
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he's leaving to go to the Lakers, I probably would still be on a

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bender right now that started yesterday morning, because I would have been celebrating that.

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That would have been funny as hell, that would have been great.

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But you know, it didn't happen
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And again, that whole thing,
like Kentucky's search, it really played out

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the way that Louisville's did as far
as just thinking bigger and bigger and then

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just realizing no, like they're going
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I think both Louisville and Kentucky despite
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in a way. Kentucky it was
different because they watched Louisville's search. No

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Dusty May, no Scott Drew.
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from Indiana States his name shirts yeah, Josh Shirtz. So then the ended

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up with Pat Kelsey, which,
by the way, hell yeah, I'm

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excited to tell about Pat Kelsey being
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it all worked out at least for
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see how you know, It's gonna
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really was the right hire, But
so far, so good. But Louisville,

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I think their shock wore off pretty
quickly because and I guess I should

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only just speak for myself, you
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the mid major route, you know, it was tough to I just assumed

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they would want to get a very
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was, based off the fact that, like, you've had two hires now

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that haven't worked out, and you
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mat and get some life back in
this program. And Pat Kelsey has experience,

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that's not really the direction that a
lot of programs are going right now.

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And the ones you did go try
to get Scott Drew, he didn't,

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you know, he wasn't gonna happen. And the Dusty May isn't even like

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that experience and that and he isn't
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with you, So Louisville shock wore
off. Kentucky watched that happened with Louisville

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and felt like, oh wow,
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a real search goes. We're about
to go get whatever coach we want.

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they couldn't get whatever coach they wanted and

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their athletic director ended up going in
a different direction. I think both fan

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bases are really excited and optimistic about
where their programs are going. So you

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know, we love this stuff so
much, meaning these programs here in this

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state, this city especially, there's
so many Louisville fans in so many Kentucky

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fans here as well. But no
matter who they hired, we were eventually

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gonna support it because what are we
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And I think both coaches, to
be fair, did a really good

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job right out of the gate of
selling themselves to their fan base to get

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excited about the future. But I
think you know the way it played out,

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being surprised by who the coach was
in the end, and people turning

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you down that you didn't expect to
turn you down. It really doesn't mean

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that Kentucky isn't the program that like
everybody knows that it is. And with

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Louisville, you know, they've got
some clear rebuilding to do, given what's

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happened recently. But I don't think
that Dusty May Scott Drew. I don't

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think those two guys didn't want to
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program. It's just situation timing.
I mean Scott Drew, I mean he

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didn't go to Kentucky he had that
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didn't want to be in Louisville and
he doesn't like me. He doesn't want

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to be at a place where you
have lunatics like us. And I appreciate

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the fact that he was that he
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just because it's Louisville. He took
Michigan instead, and then Josh Shurtz wanted

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the job and was off with the
job. But after he was off with

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the job, he had already signed
with Saint Louis, so it all worked

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out. But yeah, I mean, it's you know, if you believe

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that Mitch Barnhardt decided not to throw
the ultimate contract at Danny Hurley because he

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knew he was going to be in
the NBA. God bless you, God

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bless you. All Right, let's
see here. I feel like this segment

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just started, but we are already
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right, let's do this before we
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take a break because I want to
make sure we save some time for these

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next few items. I want to
discuss with you guys. Corporate logos are

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coming to college football fields. I'm
curious what would something like that cost.

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And obviously we can discuss which corporate
logos would make sense for these local schools

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here. And this is not surprising, but Ohio State is charging fifty bucks

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for fans to show up up and
watch a practice and I bet they sell

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out. Just fascinates me that people
will pay that much. But it's another

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example and another sign of how much
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It's just different than pro sports.
Man. Not to say it's better,

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but it's just different. And we
now know the entertainment lineup, which musical

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acts are going to be coming to
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honest, I'm a little underwhelmed.
So we got a lot to get to

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here on a Friday, stick with
us. We'll get yourself for the weekend.

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It's coffee and company. Feel buy
Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven

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ninety it's Lone Star. It is
I like some Lone Star. It's a

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good era of country music that guess
they had their they were in their prime.

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I feel like in like the early
two thousands, are they still around

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They're coming to the fair? Okay, they must be like buried in what

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I saw, because I don't remember
seeing them as a part of something one

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of the first days. If I'm
not missing I like Lone Star, so

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mister Mom as well, So clearly
they're still around, right, Yeah,

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this one and mister Mom like really
corny, hokey country songs, but they

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had enough other good stuff. I
mean, these are I mean, this

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isn't a bad song, but they're
like they're slow, kind of sad songs

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or you know what I remember them
for. But yeah, shout out Lone

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Star. And yes, if they're
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still around. We're going to talk
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State Fair in just a second here, But it does look as if now

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that photos of the pants and the
the boo boos from officer Officer Gillis who

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arrested or had Scotti Scheffler arrested,
I mean this might need to maybe this

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is just a recency biased thing here, but I kind of feel like this

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is the like, we don't we
have one video that shows that the actual

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charges that they brought on Scottie Scheffler
were not necessary and that this officer,

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as far as what was in his
report from from what we can see,

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exaggerated and didn't de escalate. In
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had no business being. As far
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But now that you see his little
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pants, I actually feel like this
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it all because it confirms when he
needed ems attention. Like what so if

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you haven't seen it, they're all
it's all over the internet. The photos

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that were released earlier today from LMPD
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and then the cut on his wrist
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minor. Imagine like I just thought
of this. Imagine going and calling nine

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to one one and requesting EMS and
showing them your knee in your arm and

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your hole in your pants. They
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You know, I don't know if
you with the actual charges, but you

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know, wasting resources and taking EMS
away from people who like might actually be

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in harm's way, might be dead. What a man? I mean,

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just an absolute clown. And there's
also audio because he turned his body came

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on after the incident and there's audio
from that. Maybe his video portion just

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wasn't relevant to share. I don't
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I mean just insane. So the
audio. We'll play that for you guys

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in the five o'clock hour if you
missed it earlier, we did play it

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earlier in the show. But anyways, it's coffee and company. We are

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feel about Thornton's here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Thank you so much for

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hanging out with us. About halfway
through here, and then we'll get out

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of here for the weekend. Looking
forward to it, and John's going to

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be out of here for an entire
week. You're getting more and more excited.

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I am bring it. You drive
the whole way, don't you.

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I do. My wife does not
like to drive, and you don't like

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not to drive, right correct,
So it's in perfect marriage right there,

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makes perfect sense, makes perfect sense, all right. So the Kentucky State

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Fair will be here before you know
it, in fact, in just a

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just a couple of months here.
And I love the State Fair, great

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people watching atmosphere, and you know, I don't know. I really can't

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put into word why I'm somebody that
just loves the State Fair, but I

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do. But I haven't gone to
a concert at the State Fair. Rather

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it be the free ones they do
or the ticketed ones, if they even

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still do ticketed concerts, I think
they do those anymore. I haven't been

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to one of those in a long
long time, and I'm not really it's

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not because they're at the acts they
bring in are lousy or just not my

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tape. I'm not. I don't
go to many concerts at all for that

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matter, but I'm I'm I don't
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they used to get bigger names,
and I kind of feel like states that

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maybe aren't you know, as great
as our state, get way better musical

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acts for their for their Fair So
on Thursday Lone Star, which John just

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played. I know why I don't
remember because I was so I was so

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excited to see Eddie Montgomery. I
love Eddie Montgomery. Montgomery gentry. That's

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Kentucky country right there. And yeah, I know, like when I say

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Kentucky and just mentioned the state people. Although true a Louisville fan, like

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I guess I'm guilty, throw me
in prison. I'm somebody that does,

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in fact love you of El Diard
louis Of fan, been that way my

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whole life. But I do still
like the state that I live in.

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Has nothing to do with Big Blue
Nation or can UK. It's just you

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know, I you know, this
is my home. I have my family,

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you know, my dad's side of
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state, you know, not local, but you know Greensburg area, if

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you guys know where that is,
That's where my dad's family grew up.

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So you know, I love Eddie
Montgomery. I probably won't go. I'm

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not gonna lie and act like yeah, I'm going to be there, but

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you know, maybe because I like
Eddie Montgomery and I like Lone Star.

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So Friday, August sixteenth, you've
got this Sugar Hill Gang with Melly Mel

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and Scorpio, who I guess is
of Furious five. Do you know who

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Furious five is? I don't either, But the special guest for that act

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is actually, I think the best
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Fair, and that's the ying Yang
Twins, Ying Yang in this Thang ying

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Yang Twins that is, I mean, talk about my high school era ying

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Yang Twins. They had a lot
of a lot of hits. I mean

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maybe some wouldn't call them hits,
but I'm a big Yin Yang's fan guy

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or Yin Yang Twins guy, and
I didn't realize they were still touring,

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so should be the one to introduce
them. Well, what we should do

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is I think vibe check at the
Yin Yang Twins concert could be could be

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of epic proportion. I mean,
that could be something something special there,

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So have to keep that in mind. Saturday, Stephen Piercy of Rat with

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special guest Queen Riot. No Quiet
Riot, Okay, what I say,

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Queen right? Oh? Quiet right? Yeah? I know, quiet right

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is. I don't know a lot
about them, but I've heard him at

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least do you know anything about that? That's no Rat is an eighties rock

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band. Gotcha that could be cool? Sunday the oak Ridge Boys with special

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guests of the Country Gold Tour including
le Leroy, Van Dyke, Linda Davis,

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Jimmy Fortune, Rockland Road. Uh, and that's it and the Oakridge

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Boys. I feel like I have
been coming to the Kentucky State Fair for

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fifty years, maybe longer. There
the mainstays, I mean they this is

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I don't know if they one gig
booked a year, which I'm sure they

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get more, but if they only
get one, I know it's going to

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be the Kentucky State Fair. All
right. Cain will be on Monday with

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special guests Katie Nicole. No,
I'm not familiar. How about you?

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Their Christian group Okay, Tuesday,
August twentieth, Happy Together, including The

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Turtles, the Cowcils, Bad Finger, the Vogues, the Association, Jay

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and the Americans. I'll let you
use the first one. I'm not familiar.

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Okay, Yeah, I don't know. I mean the Turtles, the

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Cowcles, Bad Finger. I would
assume this is like alternative music. No,

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yeah, completely unaware of any of
those acts, but congrats to them

407
00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:42.759
for getting booked to the Kentucky State
Fair Wednesday, Justin Moore with special guest

408
00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:47.039
Alex Miller. Don't know who Alex
Miller is. I know Justin Moore,

409
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.240
well, I've seen him many times
in concert. I'm a fan of Justin

410
00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:52.960
Moore. Not sure if I'm going
to go, but yeah, that you

411
00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:55.759
know, that's somebody I at least
have heard of. I'm sure you have

412
00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:57.640
as well. Yes, and yeah, I'm a big fan. In fact,

413
00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:00.960
I think he's think he's coming to
Fourth Street before too long, So

414
00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:04.480
maybe he'll have two shows here in
Louisville this summer, or maybe he just

415
00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:07.880
recently came to four Street. I'm
not sure, but yeah, that's somebody

416
00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:11.559
I'm familiar with. On Thursday,
August twenty second, Ever Clear with special

417
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.160
guest Marcy Playground. I've heard of
Everclear? Alt rock? Yeah, so

418
00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:18.359
are you fan? You know anything
about him? They're They're good. I

419
00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.079
guess I don't know a ton of
their songs, but I know of them.

420
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:26.599
Friday, August twenty third, thirty
eight special was special guest Exile.

421
00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:30.559
Assuming that's a rock band, rock
band from the South. Saturday August twenty

422
00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.319
fourth, Laura and Elena with special
guest Mackenzie Porter and Kelsey Hart. I've

423
00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:36.839
heard of Laura and Elena. I
know she's country music, but I don't

424
00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:40.119
believe she was a runner up on
American Idol. That makes Scotty McCreary,

425
00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:42.359
that makes sense. Yeah, so
I know of her, but not familiar.

426
00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:47.440
And then on Sunday, the last
day, Torn Wells was special guest

427
00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:51.759
consumed by Fire another Christian act.
Okay, yeah, so you know,

428
00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:56.799
shout out to all those musicians that
are booked. Some of them, I've

429
00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:00.319
heard of. Some of them I
don't know anything about. But I feel

430
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.880
like we used to have like a
better lineup, and maybe I just you

431
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.160
know, maybe I'm wrong and I
just dreamed that. But let me give

432
00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:11.559
you like a comparison here. I
think the state of Kentucky is I don't

433
00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:15.799
know. I'm sure there's things we
do well and there's things we don't do

434
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.079
well. Right, So, I
don't really know where we rank among all

435
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.279
the states as far as you know, popularity that kind of stuff. But

436
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.839
one state that I've been to and
I probably will never go back to that

437
00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.720
I have a hard time thinking that
they're you know, they deserve better acts

438
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:36.119
than us. The Iowa State Fair. Iowa, like what do you know

439
00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:37.759
about Iowa? Like you ever been
in Iowa, never been to Iowa,

440
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.519
and you probably never will because there's
no destination in Iowa unless I go see

441
00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.480
Indiana play in Iowa. Yeably the
only reason I go there. But if

442
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.079
you're picking a big ten road trip, you ain't go in Iowa unless you

443
00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:49.440
have to, right, Like you'll
you'll go elsewhere, Like what's there to

444
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:56.440
do in Iowa. So I've drove
to Iowa to Des Moines, and it

445
00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.880
was one was actually decent city,
and it was a decent trip. But

446
00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.200
you know, I remember thinking,
yeah, I'll probably never be back here

447
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:07.480
unless you know, I have to
be or unless I travel through here,

448
00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:10.359
Like there's just no reason to be
there. But if I was going to

449
00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:15.480
go back, it might be because
of the insanely awesome lineup they have every

450
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.480
year at the Iowa State Fair.
Just a few years ago, this is

451
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:23.240
who they had at their state Fair. The Chainsmokers, Slip Knot, Zach

452
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:30.200
Brown Band, Toby Keith, r
Ip Dan and Shay Foreigner, The Pentatonics,

453
00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:33.839
Hoodie and the Blowfish. That's like
a festival. I'm not Yeah,

454
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:36.799
I'm not a big fan of some
of those, but like those are all

455
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:40.559
big acts. They're not not from
Iowa, so they probably gets a little

456
00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:44.200
hometown right there for them. You
could have had me guess thirty states that

457
00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:47.640
Slipknot was from, it would have
never guessed Iowa. I don't know what

458
00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:49.759
I would have guessed, but I
would not have guessed that that Iowa produced.

459
00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:53.839
So, I mean, like,
how's that happen? Like that's a

460
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:57.119
that's a hell of a I mean
that's insane. Like again, if you're

461
00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:00.160
gonna go to Iowa, maybe that's
maybe that's why you're going to go the

462
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.680
fair and maybe see these acts again. Like I don't like the Zach Brown

463
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:06.279
band a whole lot, Dan and
Shaye, don't like Luke Bryant, but

464
00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:08.759
like those are big acts. I'm
sure Toby Keith was a banger of a

465
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:11.240
night. Yeah, I mean Hoody
in the Blowfish, come on. So

466
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:15.359
I don't know who I got.
I mean, I'm not somebody that would

467
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.079
go to a lot of concerts regardless
of who who's there. It's not really

468
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.799
my thing, but I feel like
Kentuckians deserve a little better than what we've

469
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.359
been given. No offense to the
other I mean, it's not their fault

470
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:29.680
they got booked, but I feel
like we deserve better. But maybe I'm

471
00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:33.720
wrong, Maybe they're Maybe they have
a bigger budget in Iowa to pay because

472
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:36.599
it does cost. You know,
it's there's a big there's a budget for

473
00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:40.720
the State Fair every year and they
got to pick and choose how they use

474
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:44.119
that budget. And this is what
they could this is what they could give

475
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:48.039
us. Do we know why they
stopped doing the ticketed acts in the Freedom

476
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:51.119
Hall because that's part of the problem. Those used to be the big names

477
00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:53.279
of the Yeah, the fair.
Yeah, I remember there was at least

478
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:57.160
one or two concerts throughout the fair
every year that were in Freedom Hall.

479
00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:03.440
And my guess would be that it
guess that venue maybe can't be used for

480
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.480
that kind of stuff anymore. Maybe
No, I mean, if there's not

481
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:10.960
a concert going on in Freedom Hall
in the actual arena, then there's they've

482
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:12.599
got like the horse show and stuff
like there's all kinds of like it's used

483
00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:15.200
at all times if there's not a
concert. So maybe logistically it just became

484
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.759
too big of a challenge to have
to tear it down and then have a

485
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.920
concert and then have it, you
know, have the pigs running around the

486
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:23.880
next day or something or whatever it
is they do, or it could have

487
00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:30.960
and this actually wouldn't surprise me.
It could have been like a revenue sharing

488
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:36.039
dispute or something because you know,
freedom Hall. I guess it's just the

489
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:38.160
State Fairboard own the Freedom Hall.
I mean they do. But I'm just

490
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:41.680
thinking, like, because that could
have been a big money maker too,

491
00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:44.440
right, Like that's a separate ticket
than your fair ticket, So like you

492
00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:48.240
could make money if you if you
end up bringing, you know, a

493
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:49.559
big act that people would pay for. So yeah, I don't know.

494
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:52.559
I mean, I don't know why
they stopped doing that, but that probably

495
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.880
got you a chance to get bigger
acts. That would be they would they

496
00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.680
would fit more in a because there's
some acts that like where they have the

497
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:04.720
State Fair concerts. Now, like
some acts like the ones I just mentioned

498
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.279
that went to Iowa, they wouldn't
come if that's like where they had to

499
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.319
play, because it it would look
as if like they're desperate to get booked

500
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:13.799
or something. So anyways, so
let's get to a quick break. We'll

501
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:15.720
come back on the other side.
Keep this thing rolling along. What I

502
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:20.400
want to get to on the other
side, let's talk about the the corporate

503
00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:24.559
logos that are now going to be
allowed to be on football fields in college

504
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:30.799
football. Clearly, this is going
to be an opportunity for these schools to

505
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:32.240
add more revenue, and they need
to add more money because they got to

506
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:36.440
pay more money now each and every
year. But I'm curious, can you

507
00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:38.359
like put ten of them on your
field? And how much does it cost?

508
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:43.720
Like, I you know, how
much money can can they actually make

509
00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:45.720
here? I mean anything helps because
again some schools are going to have to

510
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:49.640
come up with twenty two million dollars
annually, which is not easy to do.

511
00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:52.079
All right, keep it lock right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

512
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:57.480
So this is very weird. But
this song, which by the way,

513
00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:00.839
came out when I was in high
school and it hit. It was a

514
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:02.759
hit, not just you know,
I mean it was a top ten US

515
00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:07.319
airplay song back in the day two
thousand and three, so you know it

516
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:09.400
had a good run. This is
actually from what I can tell here on

517
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:13.519
Wikipedia, this is the this is
their most successful song when it comes to

518
00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:17.160
radio play. Salt Shaker by Ying
Yang Twins featuring Little John and the East

519
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:20.680
Side Boys. What ever happened to
the East Side Boys? Well, John

520
00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:22.640
always thought them and the Ying Yang
twins were the same thing. Don't say

521
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.680
that. Come on, John,
show some respect to the Ying Yang twins.

522
00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:30.599
But I think you're dead right about
that being a good vibe. Check

523
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:34.039
yeah, you kidding me? Just
hearing that, I can tell. But

524
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:37.119
in a weird way. This gonna
sound weird. That song reminds me of

525
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:42.119
one of my best friend's mothers,
and I can explain. So whenever my

526
00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.839
like three of my closest friends,
they all went to UK together and I

527
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.920
would occasionally go up and hang out
with them. It was later when they

528
00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:52.200
were about to finish school, when
they had they had a house, and

529
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:54.680
we partied a lot up there.
I think my wife and I would go

530
00:33:54.839 --> 00:34:00.000
once every few weeks and have a
good old time. Well during football season

531
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.960
and they would go to the football
games, and their parents would sometimes come

532
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:06.079
up and go with them, and
you know, we tailgate at their house

533
00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:07.480
and I wouldn't go to the game. We'd just stay there and party and

534
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:12.800
really, you know, do what
twenty one twenty two year old people do,

535
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:17.199
you know, just party and act
foolish. I mean we'd never got

536
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:21.280
in trouble or anything like that,
but a lot of those those days in

537
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.199
Lexington when I would go and visit
friends are kind of a blur, but

538
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:27.039
well, what I do remember it
was a great time. But one of

539
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:30.719
my buddies' moms came back from the
game with everybody and we were playing beer

540
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:35.159
pong and that song was on,
and you know, I'd never seen her

541
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.159
that intoxicated. I mean, she
wasn't like, you know, acting a

542
00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:40.119
fool, but you know, she
was feeling good, if you know what

543
00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:43.639
I'm saying. And she was dancing
to this song and it was just a

544
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.119
visual that like I couldn't believe what
I was seeing. You know, she's

545
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:50.239
she's she's somebody that like, if
she heard us listening to when we were

546
00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:52.119
growing up, I feel like she
would have told us to turn it off.

547
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:54.440
And here she is getting loose to
it, shaking like a yeah,

548
00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:58.199
shake it like assault shager. So
yeah, shout out to the yin Yank

549
00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:04.119
Twins. All right, So the
decision I guess by the NCUBLEA was announced

550
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:10.159
earlier this week that they're going to
allow schools to put logos sponsorships essentially on

551
00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:14.840
their field. So it says the
NCAA has approved a policy change to allow

552
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:17.360
schools to place the corporate logo in
the middle of their football field of development

553
00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:22.559
in direct response to the need to
find new revenue streams in the aftermath of

554
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:28.280
the House versus NCAA settlement agreement.
So if they're only going to let them

555
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:30.280
do it in the middle of the
field, that limit that, you know,

556
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:34.119
that limits you to to you know, space. But I don't know,

557
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:36.519
like maybe that's not the only place
to let you do it. It

558
00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:39.679
doesn't, I mean, that's what
this says specifically here by Eric prisbell At

559
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:44.039
on three sports. But that matters, right, Like if you can have

560
00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:45.960
you know, if you could have
four of them, like one at each,

561
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:52.199
like one on the twenty five yard
line on each side of the field,

562
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:57.920
like that, that could be four
sponsorships. So I would love to

563
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:01.679
know what you pay for that.
And also this is kind of getting too

564
00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:07.920
deep into the weeds. But lear
Field owns the rights to that stuff,

565
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.559
right, So like lear Field,
like when you see a like lear Field

566
00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:15.239
is U of L's partner, and
you know, for example, they own

567
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:20.159
like they own the broadcast rights,
they own you know, for the radio

568
00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:23.039
and whatnot. Like whenever we would
have games here that are on that we're

569
00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:28.159
on our family of stations. It
was you know, lear Field's broadcast,

570
00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:30.280
like lear Field owned it, and
obviously U of L and Learfield are partners

571
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:35.719
together. But Learfield pays a lot
of money in order to have the rights

572
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:40.480
to the broadcast, the logo,
like all the all the copywritten stuff,

573
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.199
and they can monetize it, and
I would assume that they're able to.

574
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:46.280
Well, again, I don't want
to get too deep into the weeds,

575
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:51.719
but the deal that companies like Learfield
gave some of these schools many years ago

576
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:54.079
doesn't look like it was a good
one because it's become harder to monetize because

577
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:57.400
of the amount of money that you
that you pay the schools to do that.

578
00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:02.159
But anyways, you know they own
that, So is that money going

579
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:05.320
to lear Field and then lear Field, Like, I don't know how that

580
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:09.119
works. I would assume that maybe
on the field that is not something lear

581
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:13.519
Field but on. But for example, if you see an advertisement in the

582
00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:16.679
Young Center or at ellen n Stadium, you know around like you know,

583
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:21.960
on the video board or just there's
all there're sponsors everywhere, right like for

584
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:25.480
example the tunnel at the YOUM Center. When you see the players, the

585
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:30.440
Louisville players run into the locker room. That tunnel there on top of it,

586
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:34.760
there's a black like a black you
know, it covers the tunnel.

587
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:37.280
And on top of that, there's
a huge Thornton's logo. Well that's Thornton's.

588
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:42.239
That is, that's an advertisement that
Thornton's purchases through lear Field. So

589
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:45.000
I don't really know how that works, but either way, schools need more

590
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:50.639
money now because they're gonna have to
start paying players themselves, and anything helps

591
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:58.960
says here that their schools are now
hoping for other opportunities to sell sponsorships that

592
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:04.320
they previously weren't alive out and that
is jersey patches, much like we've seen

593
00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:07.960
in professional sports, right, like
every NBA team has a corporate sponsor logo

594
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:12.559
and those are like those are pretty
in fact, those are pretty discreet,

595
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:14.800
right, Like you know you can
see it. You can you can clear

596
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:19.320
like the advertiser the sponsors getting a
clear visibility. Right if you see a

597
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.000
player at the free throw line,
they don't have to do a close up

598
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:23.639
on him. You can probably tell
what logo is there, Like I know

599
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:28.360
is at and T Boston. I
feel like it might be maybe a dream

600
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:32.519
that I know, like the Bucks
are Harley Davidson, so like it's not

601
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:37.440
it's it doesn't look like you're you're
a big walking infomercial, right, And

602
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.519
I think because in professional sports across
across the pond in Europe, like basketball

603
00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:44.960
specifically, even like soccer, right, aren't a lot of European soccer jerseys

604
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.320
John like corporate sponsors. I mean, I bet they pay a lot of

605
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:51.760
money for that. So I know
in professional sports they've often time like they

606
00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:54.480
don't want that to be the case. But the NBA, I think,

607
00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:58.280
showed that you can do it pretty
discreetly to where it doesn't look like,

608
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:00.599
you know, you're just pimping your
self out at every turn. But in

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college you might have to start pimping
yourself out at every turn to as many

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sponsors as you can get because you
have to be able to generate money revenue

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to pay these players. And I
probably shouldn't keep saying that you have to,

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because here's the thing, you don't
have to. But if you want

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to compete and win, you're gonna
have a tough time doing it. If

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you're not competing with the best of
the best. When it comes to what

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you're allowed to pay, and the
cap is twenty two million annually for universities

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to pay everyone. And that's not
just football basketball, it's everybody. And

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I'm curious who makes the decision as
far as how that gets dispersed. It's

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probably not one person. I'm sure
it's going to be a committee. Maybe

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it's just the athletic department, the
athletic director and his staff or her staff,

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depending on you know which school that
that'll be. That'll be tough to

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figure out. So locally here,
like, there's certain there's certain companies that

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I think are spot Like they sponsor
enough right like you've got llen n Stadium,

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You've got the Planet Fitness, Purple
Lot, and those are big corporations

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that have the means to make that
kind of a marketing spend. But there

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may be some that wouldn't have that. But now maybe they can afford to

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put a little logo, you know, at the twenty five yard line or

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maybe it's I mean, actually think
in a way, if your logo is

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on the middle of the field during
a college football game, like, would

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that be worth more than the naming
rights of the stadium? Probably not,

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But I feel like there's a lot
of value there, like it's going to

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be seen at all times. I
am curious to see what other revenue streams

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end up end up becoming available for
these schools, because they're gonna have to

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get really creative. All right,
quick break, We got another hour to

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