WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:08.720 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine 2 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:38.079 day. Now here's nick coffee. All right, let's do it five o'clock 3 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:40.560 here on a Monday afternoon. It does not feel like a Monday, at 4 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.439 least it doesn't to me because we have a short week, only three days 5 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.119 this week for us, because we're going to celebrate the fourth of July. 6 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:53.200 We're off on Thursday and Friday, which very happy to be off. So 7 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:58.119 I feel like when you have weeks like this, maybe you guys are are 8 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:02.759 able to still be as productive right in the same work ethic every day, 9 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.239 regardless of what the week looks like. But I know there's others like myself 10 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:07.400 that kind of you know, just you feel like a part timer a little 11 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.799 bit, Right's what this week feels like. I wasn't dreading Monday as much 12 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:18.239 because we've got a short week, and I never really dread, you know. 13 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:22.200 I think you can really like your job and enjoy working, which I 14 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:25.599 do, but just you know, when the weekends come to an end, 15 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:27.280 like it's just a feeling that is usually a sad one. I mean, 16 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:30.319 it's not going to put it in tears or anything. Like that, but 17 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:37.760 yeah, Monday, but it didn't feel like a Monday. So on Friday, 18 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:40.920 they're like doctoring a comp day for us, right, Yeah, so 19 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:44.799 at least for me they're taking at least this is what they told me a 20 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:47.840 couple of weeks ago. Maybe they've changed it, but they were originally taking 21 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:52.439 June teenth for everybody who worked and sticking it right after fourth of July because 22 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:56.239 we're not supposed to be off on Friday. Yeah, there was a one 23 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.120 of the holidays earlier this year. It might have been President's Day, a 24 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:06.439 MLK day. I use my comp day for that on Juneteenth or no, 25 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.280 I'm using that for this upcoming right, so it probably is the same thing. 26 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:15.240 Yeah, And man, the way the holiday falls this year, if 27 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:19.199 you don't get off work on that Friday, man, that's it. Isn't 28 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.280 that such a throwaway to day sucks? I'm curious how many people won't show 29 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.680 up to work if they're supposed to be there on Friday. I mean, 30 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:29.960 I mean like call in, like just like no no, I mean no 31 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:31.280 call, no show. I'm not encouraging that, but there'll be plenty of 32 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:38.479 call in so surprised, Like I kind of feel like that's like, that's 33 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:43.120 justifiable unless there's an emergency that like led to it. If you literally just 34 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.840 don't tell anybody and don't come to work, I have a hard I don't 35 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:47.919 know what job you could have to where that wouldn't lead to you being fired. 36 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.599 Probably a job where they just don't have anybody else to replace you with, 37 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:54.199 or a union can protect you, and you'd have to be like written 38 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.240 up a certain amount, like you know, just not showing up and not 39 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.080 telling anybody. I feel like, no matter what you do, that would 40 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.639 be something that would be hard to come back from, unless again, you 41 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:07.960 know, there's an understandable excuse for that. But again, it's July first 42 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:13.919 today, which means as of as of today, Louisville has has been in 43 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:20.280 the ACC for ten years. And I'm happy that Louisville ended up in the 44 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.960 ACC. I'm grateful that they used that open spot when Maryland bolted for the 45 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:28.960 Big ten and they chose Louisville. But I'm also not afraid to say that 46 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.120 I just don't like, I don't I feel underwhelmed. That's a me thing. 47 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:36.240 Maybe I had expectations that weren't realistic. I just felt like Louisville would 48 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.759 kind of feel as if they were in the upper echelont of college sports, 49 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:42.639 and at times, I guess it's felt like that, But I don't know, 50 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:46.639 I just I guess I had unrealistic expectations as far as you know, 51 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.520 being in a Power five league. That is, to be fair, all 52 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.439 the leagues' level has been in from top to bottom, you know, the 53 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.039 two major sports, basketball and football. I mean, the ACC is the 54 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.520 best league level has been and it's not close. Obviously the Big East in 55 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:01.120 basketball all had a hell of a run there. But football, you know, 56 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.280 not a whole lot, not a whole lot there as far as historically, 57 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:08.319 and of course now the league doesn't exist in football. But here is 58 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:15.120 Tom Jurich ten years ago when Louisville was In fact, this was actually before 59 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.680 they joined the league. I think this is when they you know, got 60 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.920 invited and they knew they were going to the league. Well, we've enjoyed 61 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:25.759 a lot of success, but we know in this business it's all cyclical. 62 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.040 So we we spent a lot of time making sure that we keep working and 63 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.560 pointing forward that hopefully we could duplicate this again sometime. But you know, 64 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:38.839 to wake up in December and be able to win a Sugar Bowl and go 65 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:42.560 win a national title in men's basketball, be a national runner up for women's 66 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:45.879 basketball. It's just a dream come true. But you know, we don't 67 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:48.000 take anything for granted. We appreciate everything that's happened to us, but we're 68 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:51.560 just we're so excited about what our future looks like. When Louisville does join 69 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:56.000 the ACC a year from now, there will be all this talk we've already 70 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.800 had about an ACC channel and a year from now, who knows where those 71 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:00.199 toxsic go. Where would you like to see the Well, obviously I think 72 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.279 you'd love to see it go there. But that's smarter people than me. 73 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:05.360 They're gonna be making those decisions. But you know, I think anytime that 74 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:10.600 you can continue to brand yourself and remake yourself, I think it's just it's 75 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:14.360 it's an incredible asset for everybody Louisville that made it kind of said, I 76 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:15.439 didn't plan on playing the rest of that, but I thought, but the 77 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:18.920 hell of it, what the hell, let's let let's see what Tom said 78 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:29.319 eleven years ago. And I shouldn't say sad, but like that level of 79 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.120 success. He just threw out there like casually. I mean god, I 80 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.199 mean that was the yearly cardinal right, something that you'll never see again anywhere, 81 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:39.759 not just at Louisville, I would assume. But VCS ball win against 82 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:45.560 Florida football, National Championship, basketball runner up in women's basketball, and then 83 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:50.279 a College World Series appearance like that's that's insane, and it made me sad 84 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.920 that it's been that long since it happened and we really haven't had a whole 85 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:58.759 lot of anything close to that success since. But you know, hopefully that 86 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:03.439 changes soon. But the network, that was all anybody talked about. ACC 87 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:11.439 network. We need an ACC network. The SEC has one and it's crushed 88 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.160 it. The Big ten was mocked when they launched their own network, and 89 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:19.879 it gave them an insane amount of wealth for those universities in their athletic department. 90 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:26.000 So the ACC network it's here. And I think you can make the 91 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:29.439 case that the reason that the ACC is currently in the situation it's in now 92 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.160 adding teams that you don't need to add. You've got two schools suing the 93 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:38.120 league, and the league suing these two schools because you know, the only 94 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:42.560 thing keeping Clemson in Florida state in the league. Is this humongous buyout that 95 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:46.480 they don't that they can't pay and nobody would want to pay. But the 96 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.959 network is what caused all this because Jim Swafford is that his name, James 97 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:54.040 Swafford, smish Er, Swafford, whatever Hell's first name was. You know, 98 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.000 he was trying to keep up with the Joneses. He knew that everybody 99 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:59.519 wanted a network, and you know, a couple of years in there wasn 100 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:05.480 one and then you know, sure enough they finally got it together. But 101 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:10.680 they must have rushed it and Swatford is gone, so it didn't matter. 102 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:15.639 But like he's the one that probably killed the acc if it does in fact 103 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:24.560 implode because twenty thirty six, I mean, under any grand of rights for 104 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:28.199 these conferences that has taken place, these contracts, right, the new TV 105 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.519 deal for this league and that league, who what sense does it make to 106 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.800 lock in for that amount of time without being able Like just think of inflation. 107 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:41.360 Think about you know, that amount of money in two thousand and thirteen 108 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:45.639 is not the same as two thousand and thirty six, which is when the 109 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:50.160 grand of rights comes to an end. And that's why you've got Florida State, 110 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:53.920 Clemson. At least they're the ones publicly saying it. Others haven't said 111 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:57.680 it as far as you know ads that I'm aware of. But all these 112 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:03.160 other schools, indifferently leagues are already making more money and they're going to re 113 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.000 up three times before you can do it once. And that's why they're that's 114 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.079 why they feel is if their hand is being forced to sue and try to 115 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:13.360 get out because they just can't accept that, you know, schools that they 116 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:20.120 feel inferior to are going to be making way more money than them. And 117 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:24.439 I mean, that's that's that's really the root of the ACC, in the 118 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.839 uncertainty of the league that's out there. But the one thing that you know, 119 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:33.120 begin what could potentially kill it is also what could potentially save it in 120 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:37.000 that deal because it's apparently so ironclad to where you can't get out, Like 121 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.039 we're all stuck together. We can complain, but this is it. So 122 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.000 with the ACC, you know, ten years in for Louisville, I I 123 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.399 don't feel like, you know, I don't feel like there's been anything that's 124 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:58.600 happened for Louisville Athletics, any big moment, any big accomplishment really anything specifically, 125 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:03.559 to be honest with you, that you couldn't have unless you were in 126 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:09.879 the ACC. Now you do get annual football games that you typically wouldn't get, 127 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.919 right, like more often than not, Clemson or Florida State's really good, 128 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.480 So you get a chance to play a really, really good team that 129 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:18.159 if you're in the Big East or the American or even you know, Conference 130 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.000 USA, you're not getting that opportunity. So that that certainly puts you in 131 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.840 in a different spot. And yes, clearly, if you didn't get to 132 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:30.879 the ACC, you'd have been playing on Thursday nights against you know, South 133 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.960 Florida with nobody there at that stadium down in Tampas. So like, obviously 134 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.840 you're much better off than what you would have been had you not got invited. 135 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.720 But I can't think of what the league as provided that. That has 136 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.919 been a big moment where you feel like, well, thank God for the 137 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:52.960 ACC. I mean the Florida State win when Lamar Jackson was in his Heisman 138 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:56.360 season, like that's I mean, I don't know if Louisville was that good 139 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:01.080 because of the ACC, but clearly that opportunity present itself because you're in the 140 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.200 ACC and Florida State at the time was rolling with Jimbo Fisher and that was 141 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:11.919 a huge game, which again Louisville really had to fight, like for example, 142 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:16.480 to play Florida in the Sugar Bowl like you did in twenty twelve. 143 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:18.919 I still actually believe it's the biggest win of Louisville for louisvill football in my 144 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:24.200 lifetime that I remember, and I can't imagine there's one that was in my 145 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:26.519 lifetime where I don't remember that was bigger than that. But you think of 146 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:33.440 what you had to do to get that. You had to win ten games 147 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.799 I think it was ten games that year you had to win, and you 148 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:41.159 had Teddy on one leg up there at Rutgers in that last game because you 149 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:43.039 had to win your league. You didn't win your league, then you didn't 150 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.679 get to go to the BCS Bowl Game. So you had to fight for 151 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.080 those opportunities in Louisville. I think for the most part, when they get 152 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.200 those opportunities, you know here and there, they've really taken advantage of it, 153 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.399 and that was one of them. Now, you know, you have 154 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:58.919 those kind of opportunities that are just on your schedule because of what the league 155 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:01.080 that you're in. But I will give credit to somebody on the text line 156 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:03.320 who kind of called me out earlier and said, Nick, hey, maybe 157 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:09.120 you feel a little underwhelmed with the ACC because Louisville's yet to really have a 158 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:13.519 monumental moment and they've been there, and you're may be right, Like Louisville 159 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:18.279 has never beat Clemson. Louisville has beat Florida State, but it typically hasn't 160 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:20.720 really been when it mattered. I hate to say that. Now, they 161 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.519 did beat them in twenty sixteen. That game I just mentioned that was great. 162 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:24.840 In fact, I don't know if people remember, Florida State end up 163 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:26.960 having a really good season the rest of the way, like they end up 164 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:30.600 beating Harball in Michigan in the Sugar Bowl. I think it was. So 165 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.039 you know, those are things that stand out. But even with all that, 166 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:41.480 I just still, you know, like if Louisville ended up getting out 167 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.840 of the ACC because of let's just say this scenario happens. Somebody has the 168 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:52.840 cheat code and they can break the grain of rights deal and there's an exit 169 00:11:52.879 --> 00:12:05.960 strategy, and that leads to Clemson and Florida State and Virginia North Carolina. 170 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:15.120 They're going to the Big Ten, and then the SEC adds Miami they add 171 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.320 I don't know who else they would add. I'm trying to think of schools 172 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:22.799 that are, like, you know, of value, and Louisville has value. 173 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:28.600 But what the scenario I was trying to present was Louisville ends up in 174 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.840 the Big Twelve because they didn't get an invite to the SEC or the or 175 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.200 the Big Ten because they only added like two schools and Louisville was like fifth 176 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:39.240 in line, and they ended up in the Big twelve. I wouldn't at 177 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:41.399 all care, Like I wouldn't feel like, oh man, the ACC is 178 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:45.399 dead. I'm sad. Part of it is because we're still kind of new, 179 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.159 you know, in Louisville. In my lifetime as a fan, we've 180 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:50.399 bounced around enough leagues. I don't have any league a field. I mean 181 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:54.399 I don't. I mean we've been we've been getting around, if you know 182 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:56.440 what I'm saying, Like, there's not any league that I feel a loyalty 183 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:01.000 to because we've been bouncing around literally since I've been long enough to remember being 184 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:07.200 a fan. So you know, I don't hate the ACC. I just 185 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:09.240 you know, it's kind of whatever to me, But I will say this, 186 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:11.559 that's a good point on the text line. We'll never know for sure, 187 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:18.320 but one of the biggest things that's ever happened to the University of Louisville 188 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.679 in any sport is having a Heisman Trophy winner. That is something that I 189 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:24.080 never thought would happen. Most people didn't never think would happen. You could 190 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.000 even really see a scenario where that would happen, and it did. And 191 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:33.600 I have a hard time seeing Lamar Jackson come to Louisville if they're not in 192 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:39.440 the ACC and they're in the American Conference with Cincinnati, with Central Florida, 193 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:41.039 he had Florida. I mean, Florida was a school that offered him. 194 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.679 I mean that was the real worries when he showed up on signing day. 195 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:48.879 I think he had like an orange backpack, and everybody thought that meant like 196 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:52.720 he was going to show up and sign with Florida because they offered and they 197 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:58.519 came in late Nebraska, if I remember correctly, was was heavily on him. 198 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.240 But they didn't they didn't tell him if he could play quarterback or not. 199 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:03.240 So you know, he clearly wanted to play quarterback, and obviously he 200 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:07.639 is a quarterback. So like, maybe that's the real big prize that the 201 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.799 ACC has given us is because being in that league, you know, you 202 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:13.759 get to play teams like Miami, you play Florida State that could be attracted 203 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.399 for a recruit who's from Florida like Lamar. So maybe that is the real 204 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.120 benefit, because Lamar winning the Heisman is something Louisville can still. I mean, 205 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:24.720 look, he just won the MVP for the second time in the NFL. 206 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:28.679 That has value. It's really difficult to truly know the exact amount of 207 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:33.200 value that it has. But having that guy, two time NFL MVP, 208 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:39.000 former Heisman Trophy winner, a guy who seemingly has the cool factor in professional 209 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:46.240 sports, that helps you. And I'm not sure if any recruit has ever 210 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:50.720 said I came to Louisville because I watched Lamar Jackson and I saw how awesome 211 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:56.039 it could be. But I'm sure whenever kids are being recruited now, just 212 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:01.639 keep in mind Lamar played here. His last season was twenty seventeen, So 213 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.919 you know, kids that are just entering college or maybe being recruited right now, 214 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.799 when they think of Louisville football, they think of Lamar Jackson, Now, 215 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:15.159 I would say most people who don't have any connection to Louisville don't, 216 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:18.440 you know, they don't know much about Like they don't people on the West 217 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:20.320 Coast, and they think of louis they probably think, yeah, that's Allamar 218 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:24.519 Jackson played if they're thinking football. So I'd say that's probably the biggest, 219 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.120 you know, gift. Maybe I don't know if you call it a gift 220 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.720 or not, because Louisville did just like for example, when Lamar got here, 221 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.480 he did say that one of the reasons that he came to Louisville was 222 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.120 because Teddy Bridgewater and what Teddy did when they knocked off Florida and like that 223 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:43.919 clearly got a lot of attention down there, especially when Charlie's going into Florida 224 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.200 and taking all their players. So maybe he still would have come to Louisville 225 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.399 regardless of what conference they were in. But they were in the Big East 226 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.919 at that time, and college football was different. You could still find yourself 227 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:56.240 in a position to be in a BCS bowl game. In those bowl games, 228 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:00.159 man, they weren't national championships. But I feel like in the two 229 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.600 team era, where it's just two teams that were decided as far as who's 230 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:07.320 gonna play for it all, I think because there were only two, a 231 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.360 lot of programs fans just understood like, hey, there's only two, but 232 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:14.679 hey, we're at least in one of these big bowl games, the BCS 233 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:21.559 games. So happy anniversary for the ACC. And I haven't talked about this 234 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:26.120 yet and I've never really I've never really felt it, but it's there. 235 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.159 We are not treated the same in the ACC because we're not one of the 236 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.799 ogs. It will never be with any league because again we bounced around. 237 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.679 But yeah, I mean like when it comes to like all league votes and 238 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.600 all that, like the Carolina media, and I don't mean just North Carolina, 239 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:47.480 I mean just that region. Like you you aren't you know, you're 240 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:49.720 not put it this way. I think Louisville and the ACC is viewed as 241 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:56.600 like a second class citizen outside of do Carolina, NC State, Clemson, 242 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.919 even Virginia at times, you know, Florida State, those are the ogs. 243 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:04.240 And maybe that's you know, maybe that's expected. But you know, 244 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:08.640 the one thing recently that comes to mind is when Quincy Riley was left off 245 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.759 of the All ACC first, second and third team like that that that wouldn't 246 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:18.759 happen if he's at Clemson, Florida State, NC State, even North Carolina. 247 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.720 Who you know who wasn't great last year? All right, Uh, 248 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:27.359 we have an update on the Paris poop? John Oh? Do we do 249 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:32.079 an update on the Paris poop? So for those who missed this story, 250 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:36.319 it seems like something you'd see on the internet that's clearly made up, but 251 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:40.640 it's not. The Olympics are going to start later this month on the twenty 252 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:45.359 sixth, and they've got they've got a poop problem in the Seon River where 253 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:49.960 the Olympics open water swimming events are going to happen. So it says here 254 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:56.279 this is It says the newest water samples taken by monitoring a monitoring group found 255 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:03.960 that bacteria level levels are still ten times above what is considered acceptable limits by 256 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:07.559 bacteria were specifically talking E. Coli. As far as Olympic organizers, they 257 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:14.200 remained confident that the summer sun and heat will help deteriorate bacteria levels and everything 258 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.119 will still go on as planned. So the poop protest I still really never 259 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:23.799 I have still never really understood what that would accomplish, meaning, you know, 260 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:29.400 taking a dump in this river where the Olympics Water Games are going to 261 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.359 take place. But the best explanation I got it still doesn't make a whole 262 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:37.160 lot of sense, is that they were so bothered by real issues in their 263 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:42.839 country that needed money, resources and resources went to cleaning this dirty water that 264 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:48.160 has poop in it, and it was a waste of money and they're upset 265 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:52.440 that the country wasted the money because they're just so you know, gung ho 266 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.839 about hosting the Olympics. Is that what is that? Is that the gist 267 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:57.599 of it from what you've gathered, Yeah, that's that's what they're fighting for, 268 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:00.599 apparently. Yeah. And I mean again, this this is like, 269 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:04.160 this isn't fake news. This isn't you know, just a random this is 270 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:08.319 this is real. Like the the I don't know if they cause it, 271 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:14.880 the mayor or the politicians with power right those in office essentially in Paris initially 272 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:18.319 agreed to do it with the citizens and then backed out because they realized it 273 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.200 would in fact probably play out poorly for them in the next election. Because 274 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:23.720 I don't know, if I mean, we've we've got a guy running for 275 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:26.720 president that you know, doesn't know what planet is on. We got another 276 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.720 guy running for President's now convicted felon So you know, we don't have a 277 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.759 whole lot of room to talk. But like if you like, if you're 278 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.440 going to the voting the you know, you're going to fill out your ballot 279 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:37.920 and you're thinking of the guy and you're like, yeah, that guy he 280 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:41.400 pooped in He pooped in public last year in the river like that. You 281 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:48.680 know, just very odd, very odd situation in uh in Paris. I'm 282 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:53.759 trying to see if there's any because the last week they they called off the 283 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.599 the the pro was it a protest? I guess which was the poop? 284 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.119 Yeah, they were all supposed to go out to these yeah, these toilets 285 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:04.240 that they put out by the river and just you know, automatically dumping into 286 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:07.279 the water. I'm not sure who's taken ownership as far as leading this event, 287 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:11.400 but initially, whenever they decided to hold off, they said it would 288 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.680 be postponed and they're gonna do it at some point. So maybe they're gonna 289 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.880 wait till everybody gets there and then really, you know, it seems even 290 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:25.559 less productive. Yeah, it's who knows, though, I mean, I 291 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.240 don't know a whole lot about Paris, but you know this story has led 292 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.200 to me reading articles that I would never typically read. But you know, 293 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:36.039 maybe I'm childish. When I hear about citizens wanting to poop in the river 294 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:38.400 to make a statement to their country. That's it's gonna get my attention. 295 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:41.839 It's not a normal story. But apparently Paris is like a really gross place, 296 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:47.680 like dirty city. They don't like what's the stereotype that they don't they 297 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:49.240 don't like us. They don't shave their armpits or something. I don't know 298 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:52.720 about that. I don't know if that's a I mean, I know that's 299 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:59.200 there's certain places that that's not a big thing to you know, maybe it 300 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:02.160 is Paris. I'm not sure. Now you got me guessing. All right, 301 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:03.400 let's get to our first break here in the five o'clock hour. We'll 302 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:06.359 come back on the other side. I do want to get to some more 303 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:07.960 of the more that came in from the text line, because I was asking 304 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:14.720 people when it comes to fireworks, what am I missing? What makes you 305 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:21.319 aroused to light off a firecracker or to you know, light off a firework 306 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:26.799 that'll go twenty feet in the air and give you a brief brief you know, 307 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:33.400 maybe one to two seconds of colorful explosion, like I just I don't 308 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:36.519 get it, and some of you have given me an answer. So we'll 309 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:40.839 get to that in a lot more. Lastly, crazy day in NBA Free 310 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.680 Agency, a lot of big names moving, including Klay Thompson. He's no 311 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:47.279 longer a Golden State Warrior, so we'll try to get to all that before 312 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:48.640 we run out of time. Here it's Coffee and Company feil Bet Thornton's on 313 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:53.400 Sports Talk seven to ninety. Well done, John. I don't think I 314 00:21:53.440 --> 00:22:00.160 know this song. This is Josh Turner, great deep country voice, good 315 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:07.559 stuff. Uh. What I think of fireworks, I think of one how 316 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.400 much I don't like them. But also I think of this great scene from 317 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:17.440 from Joe Dirt whenever he encounters the I haven't seen that movie in so long. 318 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:22.000 I forget the guy's name who who was selling fireworks, but only selling 319 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:27.000 the snakes and sparklers. Of course that you know aren't high level. So 320 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:32.200 you're gonna tell me that you don't have no black cats, no Roman candles 321 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:34.119 or screaming memis. No, Oh come on, man, you don't got 322 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.759 no lady fingers, buzz butterles, snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, 323 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:41.960 gut busters, zibbity do dies or crab flappers. No, I don't 324 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:47.359 You're gonna stand there owning a fireworks stand and tell me you don't have no 325 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:52.839 whistling bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey riders, hoosker doos 326 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:57.000 does cherry bombs, nips and dazers with without the scooter stick, or one 327 00:22:57.079 --> 00:23:06.119 single whistling kiddy chaser? No, because snakes and sparklers are the only ones. 328 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:11.359 I like, what about the whistling kiddy chaser? I heard the church 329 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:12.839 burner and I was like, that's what people were going across the river for. 330 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:18.160 I really really like the creative names or fireworks. That's the best part 331 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.960 of them. So I'm not acting as if you've you know you, there's 332 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.680 something wrong with you, or I'm judging you if you love fireworks, because 333 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:29.240 again, I love things I'm sure people think are stupid. Everybody has their 334 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:34.680 own preferences and whatnot, But I just don't understand the appeal of like what 335 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:41.200 kind of entertainment value do you get with fireworks? Now, this is a 336 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:44.720 good point on the text line. Earlier somebody said that when it comes to 337 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:48.680 like just the explosions, if you light it off yourself, which I did 338 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:51.440 admit earlier, I've never done that, but I guess if I was to 339 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:56.960 light like, I don't know, something that doesn't give us any visual, 340 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:02.680 but it makes an explosion so loud, like maybe I would feel something there, 341 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:03.200 you know what I mean, and it would be like, oh, 342 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:07.960 that was cool as hell. Something so loud it'll set the car alarms off. 343 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.559 Yeah, because because this person says, I like lighting off the explosives, 344 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:15.000 but you know, if I'm not doing the lighting, I don't care 345 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:17.359 for them, and they annoy me because I'm not involved, And that makes 346 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:21.599 total sense. That's I think that's a pretty pretty expected reaction. But when 347 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.000 it comes to the ones that you know, do give you a visual, 348 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:29.240 you know, exploding in the sky and they're colorful and all that. You 349 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:32.960 know, two people have said they never got into fireworks, and now their 350 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:34.480 kids are a little older and they really love it and that's what makes it 351 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:41.519 fun. So maybe that'll be how I, you know, become firework guy. 352 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.640 I still don't see it happening, but that would be the only scenario 353 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.079 where my kids love it. So you know, but I don't have to 354 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:55.160 buy them and light them off like I feel like in most neighborhoods you can. 355 00:24:55.440 --> 00:25:00.400 You can mooch right like you can. You can stroll down some where 356 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.440 in your street, may be a street over and get something meaning like somebody's 357 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:07.119 doing something where you can at least say and you can tell your kids, 358 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:11.039 Hey, we're going to watch some fireworks tonight. Right, that's pretty common. 359 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.680 Yeah, I mean, and I get the sense that I've lived in, 360 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:21.720 I guess, a few different neighborhoods now and I've always felt like those 361 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:26.759 who do go out and do it big, they they want you to come 362 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.839 see it. They want you to see that they have the best stuff around. 363 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:33.480 Like they're not going to be like, nope, you got you better 364 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.039 get back in your house and shut your blinds. I've paid for these fireworks, 365 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:37.559 damn it, Like you're not gonna see that. It's like the Christmas 366 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.200 vacation for Fourth of July. People are going all out for it. Yeah. 367 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:45.400 So look again, I never want to make it sound as if like 368 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:51.599 I'm saying people who like fireworks are boring. It's you know, and I 369 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:53.039 don't see how they could get entertainment out of it. It's just I can't 370 00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:56.880 relate. I don't really understand. I feel like there's there's got to be 371 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:00.279 something that I'm missing that makes them. You know, maybe it's like the 372 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:04.119 sense of danger that like, you have something that goes wrong. You know 373 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:07.079 it's a problem, but you want to do it right. You're absolutely right, 374 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:11.440 and that's and that's what that's what leads me back to what we talked 375 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:15.160 about in the three o'clock hour. There used to be a whole lot more 376 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:19.079 messaging within the marketing of fireworks that if you've got this, man, you 377 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:22.000 this is this, you better be careful because this is illegal in your state. 378 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:25.920 But we went across state lines and we brought it back from you know, 379 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:29.880 Tennessee, and you know you better. You know, there was some 380 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:32.720 level of like feeling as if you had something, you know, you weren't 381 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:37.680 supposed to have, even though probably you weren't breaking any laws. But uh 382 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:44.519 but yeah, shout out to everybody who you know likes fireworks. Uh, 383 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.680 thank you to somebody who just sent this in. All right, so can 384 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:52.599 you name any types of fireworks? I don't mean brands, because I know 385 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.079 like sparklers, that's not a brand. That's just the type of thing, 386 00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:57.519 right, Yeah. Firecracker yep? Is that a brand or is that just 387 00:26:57.519 --> 00:27:02.200 a I think that's a generico. Okay, I'm gonna give you. I've 388 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:03.599 got the answers here. Thank you to this person who sent this in. 389 00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:12.039 Is a brocade of firework A brocade? I don't think so? Am I 390 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:18.640 incorrect? It is? It is a fire type of firework. Cake a 391 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:21.480 cake. I'm gonna say no to that one too. Cake is a firework 392 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:27.480 man whack job. I'm none of these sound like fireworks. I'm staying with 393 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:32.359 No, you're correct, it's not one. Okay, cross set that sounds 394 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:34.079 like a real term, so we'll go with yes, there, you got 395 00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:38.759 that right. Okay, fish is it spelled like a regular fish like the 396 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:44.319 animal? Were go with? No, it is? It is a firework, 397 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:48.279 okay, light flairy on, a light flairy on. I'm gonna say 398 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.200 that is a firework. It is not. Okay, they just made that 399 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:55.480 sound pretty cute, so I thought that was gonna be it twur billion, 400 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:02.519 Sure it is. It is blinder box that sounds like a firework. It's 401 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:07.039 not. It should be so like, let me look this up because because 402 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:14.440 because I mean, tour billion is a type of firework, and I put 403 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:17.279 it in a quick a quick Google search here, this is great live radio. 404 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:21.440 I'm sure, like, yeah, I guess you know, it's it's 405 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:25.400 a firework type effect. So I guess it's. Yeah, it's like it's 406 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:27.960 not a brand, but it's a kind of firework. Would have never known 407 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:30.400 to me. I just the call. I call them all fireworks. I 408 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:34.680 even call the ones that don't like to me an explosive that doesn't actually give 409 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:38.119 you a visual. I still just throw it under the umbrella of being being 410 00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:44.279 a firework, all right. So, uh, NBA free agency has been 411 00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:48.319 has been pretty crazy, and that's become the norm here this time. I 412 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.039 mean, once you get to July, that's when these guys can actually sign 413 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.720 these new contracts. And uh, you know, a lot of money, 414 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:02.440 man, the NBA. It is. It is insane how much money these 415 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:06.400 guys are making in the NBA compared to other leagues. Like, you know, 416 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:10.599 you could be one of the best players on an NFL team and be 417 00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:12.640 making good money, a lot more money than someone like myself, but you'll 418 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:15.119 be You'll go, look at the eleventh guy on the bench in the NBA 419 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.240 he might be doubling your salary. I mean, that could be you know, 420 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.720 an extreme, an extreme example here. But yeah, so so far, 421 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:29.440 here's what we have. Klay Thompson has made the move from Golden State 422 00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:33.440 to Dallas. Paul George has agreed on a four year deal two hundred and 423 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:37.720 twelve million to go to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. That was sort of 424 00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:41.759 the that was it was brewing that that's where he was going to end up. 425 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.640 He was going to opt out of his deal with the Clippers. We 426 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:51.759 also have Chris Paul who has agreed to a one year deal to go to 427 00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:56.599 the San Antonio Spurs. That's a good move by Chris Paul because that I 428 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.000 mean, they were terrible last year the Spurs, and I don't know how 429 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:03.440 great they're gonna be. An extra Chris Paul clearly doesn't have you know, 430 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.559 doesn't have a lot of years left, and who knows, maybe you know, 431 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.640 he'll be I mean I doubt he'll be a bench player there. But 432 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:12.960 Chris Paul's at the age that if he just kind of if the wheels kind 433 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:17.200 of fell off here, you'd understand just because he's getting up there, uh, 434 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:19.680 in age, But He's played with a really young team, which you 435 00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:25.000 know can only help him. I mean, obviously Wimby, he's he's the 436 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:27.759 franchise player there. But if you look at you know, if you look 437 00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:32.279 at other you know, some other young guys on that team that that Yeah, 438 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:36.000 I'm sure a lot of people remember this name, Kelton Johnson. He's 439 00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:38.720 actually turned out to be a pretty good pro. Who else is it. 440 00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:41.559 I feel like there's one other dude on their team that's like a very well 441 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.319 known young player that you know, actually, never mind. I guess maybe 442 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.759 that's why, uh, maybe that's why the Spurs sucked, because I'm looking 443 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.480 at the roster and like, Wimby's like the only he's like the only, 444 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.200 like real notable name. There's other names I recognize, but I don't think 445 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:03.920 these guys are like great players, like Zach Collins, Charles Bassie so yeah, 446 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.160 Devin Vessel so yeah. Maybe I was under the impression they had a 447 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.680 bunch of young players and that's why they stunk last year. They have one 448 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:15.519 really good young player in Wimby, and now they have a veteran in Chris 449 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.839 Paul who's old as hell, and the rest of the roster is very underwhelming. 450 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.519 So I just playing in Golden State, coming off the bench was not 451 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.720 something Chris Paul was happy doing, clearly, And I don't think there's any 452 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.359 concern in San Antonio if he's going to be able to be to be a 453 00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:33.759 starter there. Who is any other other Yeah, this is not a big 454 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:36.480 name, but it's a lot of money. Kntavious Colwell Pope sent a three 455 00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:41.680 year deal with the Orlando Magic. James Harden plans to sign a two year, 456 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:49.960 seventy million dollar contract to return to the Clippers, which is weird. 457 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:55.839 I mean, I know he was there recently, but seventy million, So 458 00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:59.839 that's thirty five million per season for James Harden. Is he still worth that? 459 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:01.920 I mean, if somebody's going to pay him, then by definition he's 460 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.480 worth it. But I kind of feel like things have fallen off for James 461 00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:10.440 Harden where he wouldn't be able to get that kind of money anymore. I'm 462 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:13.839 trying to see there's any other big names out there. The rest of these 463 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:15.880 names I'm seeing are guys that, to be honest with some of them I'm 464 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:21.359 not familiar with at all. Others are just like role players like Jonas Balencinuous 465 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:25.400 val valentiunis, thank you. He agreed to a three year, thirty million 466 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:29.559 dollar deal with the Wizards. So yeah, a lot of guys moving around 467 00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:35.279 when this was new Whenever, I don't know, like right after I guess 468 00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:38.759 roughly about ten years ago it started to really you know, it was often 469 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:44.240 like you didn't used to see guys jump out of contracts because they could, 470 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:46.039 And to be honest with you, it's probably because they couldn't. Right if 471 00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:52.200 you go look at like the NBA fifteen twenty years ago, I don't think 472 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:58.160 there were this many contracts that had the opt out because a guy will sign 473 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.640 a five to six year deal but can opt out after the second year. 474 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:05.680 And I just feel like they didn't used to be a thing. And it's 475 00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:10.880 led to these guys going and playing wherever they want. And you know, 476 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.359 it's not illegal, right, They're not doing something they shouldn't be doing. 477 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:21.680 But I don't think this is great for the NBA because I think, again, 478 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.920 the most exciting thing people see in the NBA is not the product the 479 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:32.640 games themselves. It is all the blockbuster trades and free agency signings and the 480 00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:36.640 drama that comes with it. So it's good for business for the NBA because 481 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:39.960 they stay, you know, talked about nearly year round. And you know, 482 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:45.000 there's clearly a humongous amount of money within that TV deal, which is 483 00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:46.680 how you know, the CBA, the Collective Bargaining Agreement. I mean, 484 00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:49.319 these guys, I mean, there's a ton of money in the NBA. 485 00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:54.400 But I just I got to tell you, I've had very little interest in 486 00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:58.119 watching any NBA in the last couple of years. Maybe it's just because I'm 487 00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:02.640 you know, I'm changed, but dudes jumping around from team to team all 488 00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:06.119 the time. It's just I don't know, they're not do anything wrong, 489 00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:07.679 but it just I don't know. That's what we're doing in college now though, 490 00:34:07.760 --> 00:34:13.920 right, you're right, absolutely, But with college it's different because you 491 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:15.679 know, my pacers are you know, they're my team, but it's not 492 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.079 to the level of Louisville, you know what I mean. And you know, 493 00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:23.760 I feel like if you're complaining of like if you're a small market NBA 494 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:29.960 team, it's almost like being a mid major college team, right, because 495 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.519 you could have a really good player, but he now has the ability to 496 00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:37.599 opt out, essentially meeting hit the portal and go play at a bigger market, 497 00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:42.000 bigger school, and you just they're kind of left. So sol it 498 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.159 hasn't happened yet at Louisville. Maybe it does down the line, but I 499 00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:47.239 feel like both Louisville and Kentucky for the most part of the early era Indiana 500 00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:53.360 as well, in the early era of college sports, things haven't been great. 501 00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:57.559 Clearly Louisville sucked out loud in basketball the last couple of years. But 502 00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:02.719 we're not losing momentum as programs because nobody wants to play here and they're coming 503 00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:05.920 and taking our players. The only example I could think of, and it's 504 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:10.320 really an exception, is is the move from the quarterback in Indiana who went 505 00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:14.599 to Washington. Oh yeah, Penix, Yeah, Penix like that. You 506 00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:17.159 know, he clearly left Indiana because you know he could play better in a 507 00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:22.239 better program, you know what I mean. Like, so it'll happen. 508 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:25.559 I'm sure at some point where there'll be a player here that's really good in 509 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:30.480 football or basketball maybe and they end up, you know, hitting the portal 510 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.800 because they just realized they can get more money somewhere else. But I do 511 00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:36.920 it, and look, other guys have done that, like for example, 512 00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:39.559 in football. Jalen Alderman, who I thought had a good year last year, 513 00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:44.599 really kind of emerged as a reliable guy at linebacker for for Louisville football. 514 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:47.400 He was gonna play this year. They wanted him to stay and he 515 00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:51.559 was gonna be I think an effective player, but he was behind stan Kuon 516 00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:53.280 Clark. He got jumped in the depth chart by a kid who was a 517 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:58.599 true freshman last year. So you know, he knows, hey, they're 518 00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:01.159 not gonna you know, I can play more and Miami'll give me money, 519 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:04.679 more money than Louibill gave me, because again in Louisville, he was good. 520 00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.519 They wanted him, but they couldn't pay him that premium price because that 521 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:12.119 was going to probably guys that were that are you know, ahead of him 522 00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:15.119 as far as priority. All right, quick break, we'll come back on 523 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:16.199 the other side. Keep this thing rolling along. In fact, we won't 524 00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:19.519 keep it rolling along for that long because we we got to get out of 525 00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:22.239 here at six o'clock. So we'll come back and you know, wrap things 526 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:28.599 up right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. So just within that last break 527 00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:32.280 there, we have some more NBA free agency news that not real surprising, 528 00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:37.719 but it is the largest deal in NBA history, and one that I would 529 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.159 imagine even though it's day one of free agency, we're meaning where you can 530 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:44.559 actually sign these contracts. I don't I don't think there'll be a bigger deal 531 00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:50.119 announced to this offseason. Jason Tatum finalizing a five year, three hundred and 532 00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:55.280 fourteen million dollars super Max contract that'll extend him to the end of the twenty 533 00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:06.079 twenty nine thirty season. So that is is roughly. I mean, let's 534 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:10.239 see here, that's about sixty two and a half million a year. I 535 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:15.760 mean, think about that. What do you do a year money a year? 536 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.400 I mean generational wealth. I mean he already had it. He's already 537 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.039 on I think this is his third contract I could believe. I mean he 538 00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:25.840 already got a new deal before his rookie deal came. I mean, yeah, 539 00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:30.360 he's been in the league for seven years now. So man, is 540 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:31.920 that is a lot of money. Somebody asked me on the text line what 541 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:38.199 it looks like for Donovan Mitchell. I don't. I haven't seen anything lately, 542 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:43.199 and you never really know what to believe. But there was a lot 543 00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:49.559 of noise during the playoffs whenever he was balling out against the Celtics and had 544 00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:53.920 no help and then you know, he got hurt and they got killed because 545 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:57.480 he couldn't play, And there was noise that he wasn't happy and wanted to 546 00:37:57.480 --> 00:37:59.320 be moved, wanted to play for the Knicks, wanted to play for the 547 00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.320 Nets or something thing, and you know, I think he kind of shot 548 00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:07.719 that down. But yeah, I'm not sure what his what his what his 549 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.239 future is. But you know, I can't claim that I'm just gonna be 550 00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.760 a big old, a big fan of wherever he ends up, unless it 551 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:16.679 was the Pacers, But you know, I hope he ends up with a 552 00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:22.360 good team that can you know, can contend and and you know he can 553 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.679 make a deep run in in the in the postseason. So I'm sure they're 554 00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:30.599 trying to sign him in Cleveland. But you know, we'll see, we'll 555 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:36.400 see what happens, all right. Uh yeah, just not much time you 556 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:38.360 know left left here at all before we before we wrap it up and say 557 00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:42.039 goodbye. But something I haven't mentioned yet here in the five o'clock hour for 558 00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.000 those that missed it at the start of the show. Uh, today is 559 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:50.280 the first day where the ACC is welcomed in s m u Cal and Stanford 560 00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:55.360 and it's the first day for Oklahoma and Texas in the SEC. And uh, 561 00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:00.079 you know, I I'm not sure if this this is something that should 562 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:04.320 be viewed as like, Wow, this is surprising, or this is this 563 00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:07.440 guy he's he's full of himself. But Quinn Ewers gonna be one of the 564 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.880 better quarterbacks in the country once again this year, coming back from Texas after 565 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:15.719 they had that breakthrough win for Sarkesian, I should say breakthrough season where they 566 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:20.440 finally made it to the to the College Football Playoff. This is what he 567 00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:28.239 said earlier today in an interview that We're going to be everybody's biggest game for 568 00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:34.039 sure. So I'm not surprised Texas views themselves that way, John, But 569 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.679 I don't think the SEC views it that way. No. I mean, 570 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:39.320 it'll be big because it's new and it's exciting, but I don't think that 571 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:45.239 playing Texas. I mean, look the SEC, it I mean, the 572 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:47.559 history, the tradition, the amount of the size of their fan base is 573 00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:52.960 like, no way Alabama's gonna look at Texas as a bigger game than when 574 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:58.440 they played Georgia or when they play Auburn or even Tennessee probably. I just 575 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:01.000 you know, Texas, let's be real, they broke through last year and 576 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:06.280 they may be really good once again this year. But they were irrelevant for 577 00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:08.440 a long time and they're going to have a target on their back for sure. 578 00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:14.599 But until they either win the league or even win the College Football National 579 00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:19.280 Championship, they're still always going to be second fiddle in the SEC to Georgia 580 00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:21.960 and Alabama in those types. Yeah, and look, the Big Twelve. 581 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:25.480 Let's be real. We know it's not the SEC, right, but the 582 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:29.760 Big Twelve. I mean, they just want put it this way. They're 583 00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:31.199 entering that league at a really good time because I actually think they're going to 584 00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:34.760 Texas is going to be really really good this year and they'll be really competitive. 585 00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:39.280 But prior to this current situation they're in with Sarkejian and this great quarterback 586 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:45.039 Quin Yours, they hadn't won the Big Twelve since two thousand and nine, 587 00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:52.079 so they went what fifteen years, essentially fourteen years without without winning that league 588 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:54.480 that is clearly nowhere near as good as the league they're entering now. So 589 00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:59.599 again, Tommy's on their side in Texas at any moment could be great because 590 00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:04.000 of the recent and just because you know it's Texas. But yeah, I 591 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:07.199 I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they're cocky. It's Texas, right, 592 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:09.440 Even when they lose, they're like, well, we'll throw more money at 593 00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:13.480 something and it'll work out. All right, Everybody, have a good night. 594 00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:16.039 We'll be back at it tomorrow for a Tuesday edition. Doesn't feel like 595 00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:19.719 won't feel like Tuesday, which is a good thing. So I hope you'll 596 00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:22.880 join us right here on Sports Talk seven ninety