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and the big news about Reggie Bush is getting I think as much attention as
I would have expected if you told me that this was going to happen.
But one thing that's cool is the camaraderie that you see from like those that
were you know, that have held the Heisman Trophy, meaning they've won it
before. And it sounds as if like there were there was a real and
I don't even know if the NCUABLEA cares about this or not, but the
I think might in of all people, it might have been Johnny Manziel,
who I think actually initially was you know, like basically saying like I will
distance myself from the Heisman, like I'll never be around a threat to essentially,
you know, no longer want to be included as somebody in that prestigious
group, which you know, to be honest with you, Johnny Manziel is
not exactly somebody. I think they'd be crushed if he wasn't, you know,
around, But others, you know, kind of felt as if they
were, they they were going to and I don't even know what power they
would have, but like brothers in arms saying, look, they've got to
get this right, especially seeing the landscape change in college athletics. So for
those who missed it, the two thousand and five Heisman Trophy is back in
Reggie Reggie Bush's hands, maybe quite literally, which actually they never took it
from him, but you know what I mean, like it's been reinstated and
USC is going to be able to, you know, not only have the
trophy, have a trophy of their own there. You know, that shows
one of their I'm sure many Heisman winners. You know, Reggie Bush was
one of the most electrifying college football players ever. He was an absolute superstar
and you know at the time, you know what went on. I guess
technically you know, against the rules, but it was happening like everywhere,
and either way to say that, you know, he earned the heisman because
there was money being given to his family or whatever, it was like,
that's just silly. It's again another example of the n W rules just being
stupid. But again, I thought the camaraderie of the of those that have
been you know, that are in the what do you call it, the
Heisman trust, They they really fought to get this back for Reggie Bush,
and I think that's cool. That's one thing I missed about sports more than
anything, is camaraderie, like being a part of a team, that kind
of stuff. So this has led to a lot of Louisville fans saying that
this, this should be, you know, another sign that the n SAA
is realizing how stupid they are, and they give out a lot of really
stupid punishments and Reggie Bush not being able to you know, claim that he
has the heisman was stupid. But now they've changed it, so just maybe
they'll look at Louisville's banner and say, yes, you know, we stick
by our conclusion of the investigation and our punishment. But as far as you
know, making you act as if you didn't win the championship, you know
we're not going to do that anymore. But Tim Sullivan, of course,
you know, Sully's all over this. He tweeted this out earlier in the
show. Texted Louis All Athletic director Josh Heard this morning, inquiring whether the
return of Reggie Bush's Heisman trophy encouraged and or emboldened him about the U of
LS about u of l's vacated twenty thirteen National Championship banner. No response yet.
What are you doing, Josh? I mean Sully, you know he's
working on a column. Sully's an old school journalist, sharp pencil, right,
He'll ask the tough questions. And I love Tim Sullivan, and I
mean that's sincerely, But whenever I envision him working on a piece, I
don't think about him on a MacBook pro or at a cubicle. I just
I'm just seeing like typewriter or handwritten and that that's like a feather pin.
Yeah. And it sounds like I'm making fun of his age. It's not
that, I mean he is older, but you know, he's just he's
old school man and he's great. Every every media market needs a sharp pencil
like Sullivan that'll ask questions that you know, a lot of people wouldn't because
they'd be worried about it impacting their access and all that kind of stuff.
And I get it. Jerry. It was his name, Jerry Tipton.
He was that guy in lexion for a long time. So I sat next
to Tim Sullivan for I believe three years at every Louisville basketball game. He
was a great courtside companion. Miss you, Tim, So again, this
whole thing has also led to others saying you know, others, others mentioning
specific things that should be reversed or changed, and Pete Rose and Barry Bonds
not being in the Hall of Fame has been mentioned quite a bit. And
then one that I was not familiar with that is insane, the Armando Galarraga
perfect Game. Gonna assume, John, you don't know who that is either,
right, got a clue? So I had no clue. I'm not
a baseball guy. But in twenty ten, this pitcher for the Tigers was
about to become the twenty first pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw a
perfect game. This was against the Cleveland Indians. He retired the first twenty
six batters he faced, and his bid for a perfect game was ruined one
out short when the first base umpire Jim Joyce incorrectly ruled that Indians batter Jason
Donald reached the first base safely on a ground ball, so instead he finished
with a one hit shutout in a three to zero victory. He faced twenty
eight batters and threw eighty eight pitches, sixty seven strikes and twenty one balls,
and the game is oftentimes referred to as the twenty eight out perfect game
or the almost perfect game. So that's a I mean, the twenty first
player in the history of Major League Baseball to do it at that time and
to have the last play, you know, the one call here like keep
you from being able to, you know, claim that that's part of your
resume, would suck, and it's something that baseball should you know, just
let him, you know. I I guess there's a chance that maybe he
doesn't care about that now. But I'm reading here from an old column about
this that, the and this, this, this, you know, that
makes it even more sad that the umpire Jim Joyce was tearful and apologetic and
over the years has apparently not stopped letting uh Galarraga know that he's so sorry
for ruining what a what a great moment. You don't see refs do or
umpires, refs whatever, officials do that very often. It's interesting, like
it's almost like when you get into the mind of the umpire he almost wanted
to ruin the perfect game. But then when it actually happened and it was
that controversial of a call, then you realize that you shouldn't do something like
that. Yeah, yep, yep, no doubt. Let's see, this
is a good one. This is something in this thread, by the way,
is over on barstool. Big cat Dan Katz. He put out once
this became public, he put out or I guess the news broke. He
put out a list of things that you know should be reversed in sports,
and he did put Louisville's national title at number three on his list because you
know, it's it's another one that's really stupid. And for those who missed
it, I did talk about it earlier. I get why people want that
banner back up, and it was you know, it's stupid for anybody to
think or claim that Louisville had an unfair advantage to win a national championship that
we know in fact they did win. We watched it happened, it was
it was real. But I just I've never been able to really match the
emotion that a lot of fans have because I don't have any negative feelings at
all towards that team in that run. I mean, I hated that that
happened and it's unfortunate, but like, I don't really think about it very
often because again, they want it. Like you know, it's not as
if I'm asking the NAA to give me something that they took from me as
a fan. Now the players, I think it's totally different. So as
I've always said, I really hope they do reinstate it for those guys specifically,
But from a fan standpoint, you know, I don't think any differently
about that run, that team or anything. This is one that that you
know, this is not really like an over this is not overturning something.
But I think this one is very much something that needs to happen. Make
the day after the super Bowl and National Holiday. We can agree on that
right, absolutely. I mean, it's the biggest sporting event of the year
and it's on a Sunday night, and it just, yeah, makes no
sense for us to not have that as a national holiday. Another one that
I saw that I'd not really thought about, but I do totally agree with,
and that is the the college football National Championship. It should always be
played on a Sunday. I totally agree. I'm sorry, Saturday on a
Sunday, apologies, because that's what college football is is a Saturday, right,
that's I mean, you can you have the occasional game on a Friday
or a Thursday. You know, in the MAC, I think they play
on like Tuesdays sometimes, but you know, the big games, the big
matchups that you know, really moved the needle are always on a Saturday.
And uh, the fact that it's on a Monday, it's just you know,
it's odd. Now you do you have you know, you have a
playoff now, so you know, you did you have to give them a
little bit of a break. But you know, why not you know,
instead of doing it that Monday, because again, actually I need to look
at the schedule how that's gonna break down, because there may be some changes
coming to that, which you know, Monday's not the worst, but I
just if it was on a Saturday night, like I think that would be
perfect. All right. So over the last uh, the last couple of
days, Louisville fans I assume have been you know, cooling themselves off a
little bit because they were so worked up about not all of them, but
you know, you see again and again, I got to do better at
not looking at something I see on the toxic wasteland that is Twitter and just
assuming that that represents a huge amount of people. But Louisville did. Look.
You know, the optics are this. Louis was losing guys in the
portal. Now a lot of other schools are too, uh. And you
know, some of these guys that you added were dudes that you ex to
be big additions, and they showed up after the season ended and we're here
for three months and left. So I get that the optics aren't good for
outsiders. But again, if you look at each because every every situation is
different, right, like losing four players, they could all be leaving for
different reasons, So it's not all one thing, right, Like it's it's
not everybody's out of here because there's no money left for an IL, or
everybody's out of here because you know, they hate Jeff Brahm or something.
So I do think it is is you know, you probably need to look
at each individual situation and get whatever information you can, which a lot of
it we're not going to know. We'll never know. But I think guys
that showed up and then just left like it just the optics of it are
are not good for anybody at any level throughout you know, just it sucks.
Well, apparently the fivebo two circle is trying to do some things on
their end to cover you know, some losses financially if in fact that happens,
meaning somebody shows up, they start getting paid in IL and then they
leave and you know, never you know, never actually played, which technically
you know, the arrangements, the contracts, the deals, whatever they're called,
and I'm not sure if it's an actual contract or not, but you
know the way they do it with the five or two circle, and I'm
sure it's not everybody, but you know, you're paid for you know,
some appearances in the community, right, that kind of stuff. So what
they give you when you arrive probably before you've played a game. Especially,
you know, if you arrive in December or January as a football player,
it's considered an advance on I think, like appearance, community work, that
kind of stuff. And again, I think in whatever the writing of the
verbiage is, it's not to say that, you know, you got to
play football, but you got to you know, you got to be here
essentially and be a part of some of these engagements. So I don't know.
Trent and Flowers, of course is the guy who showed up and got
paid and left and he did get money. Now I was told that he
didn't get like, you know, the majority of what he was you know,
supposed to be paid. But he did get more money. I mean,
he never played here, but he wasn't able to fulfill a lot of
those things that he was going to be a part of. That you know,
helped him get the nil that he needed. So I think now what
they're going to do to cover themselves a little better, as you know in
writing habit that if you you know, if you bail and you've not and
you've not been able to you know, fulfill what what was agreed upon,
then you owe us the money back. Now, will they ever get it
back, I'm not sure, but that'll that should at least make some of
these players consider you know, that that that decision, So we'll see.
I mean, I I I think that's a smart thing to do because and
that and that's that's the way you can do. And what I mean by
that is if you have something in writing that is not just to say,
hey, you know, I'm giving you this money and and you know it's
because you you know, I'm not even sure what an NIL contract would look
like because again, as far as the NSA is concerned, if you have
a if you have a contract that states, hey, I'm going to pay
this guy two hundred thousand dollars to go play basketball at this school, I
mean that's a violation. Now would they be able to you know, and
we and again we all know that they are paying them to go do that,
But like if it's actually in writing, if the if it ever gets
to the point where the contract is brought up and it matters, you know,
it's not going to state that they signed to play here and be a
part of the team, and you know, they were required to score fifteen
points a game, so I guess bs it right. And and not to
say that their appearances and the community work whatever it is they do to fulfill
the obligation to the five oh two circle. It's not to say that that's
not important, but we all know like that's just a mirage for what this
really is, because that's the way that it has to be done. All
right. Uh, five oh two five seventy nine hundred is the number.
If you guys want to give us a call. You can also text in
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zero seven ninety. This says, this is a good one. Why don't
you tell your boyfriend Matt Jones to quit spreading misinformation about Brahm and the transfers.
He said this morning that it's all about Louisville not having any money.
Well, I gotta be honest with you, I'd be really shocked if Matt
said something he wasn't quite sure of about Louisville and you know it ended up
not being true, be really be a real stunner. So I didn't hear
what he said, but I'm not if that is what he said, then
I wouldn't be surprised, and you know, it could be him just trying
to, you know, take a jab at Louisville because that's you know,
what we do in the rivalry, or you know, he could you know,
and I don't believe this, but I guess there's a chance it could
be him, just you know, not knowing anything but seeing what you know,
trolls are saying on the internet about Louisville not having any money. And
by the way, he's not my boyfriend. We're friends and I'm married.
He knows that he respects it. You know. It's we have boundaries,
we do. All right, Let's see before we take our next time out,
because there's a lot more that I want to get into, including some
NFL draft stuff and some portal stuff to get to as well, just some
player that you know are out there. I've still not seen anything about Chucky
Hepburn as far as somebody reporting that like he's visiting Louisville's the favorite. But
you know, when I say the noise, I mean like Trillie Donovan's discord
message boards. You know, people on Twitter that I don't even know if
they're real or if they're trolling. So I'm not saying the noise is valid,
but it's noise. It's out there that like Louisville is expected to get
the Wisconsin transfer. So we can discuss that. But one thing I need
to do here is tell you once again about my friends at the louis of
Men's Clinic, because they are a full mail I mean, it's a full
male staff. But you know, just think of a variety of services that
you know, dudes need to be healthier and you know, have a better
sex life and that kind of stuff and just feel better, right they I
mean I mentioned specifically what they've done for me, which was the low testosterone,
but you know, rectatus function is a real thing and a lot of
people suffer from it and it's unfortunate. But I can't imagine having that and
not doing something about it. And that's something about it as reaching out to
the little of Men's Clinic. But maybe it's not d maybe it's you know,
weight loss, maybe it's hair restoration. So they've been doing this for
over ten years and they wouldn't be able to stick around with such a great
reputation if they weren't taken care of all of their their patients. So again,
go see them. I mean, I guess you could show up,
but I think they probably prefer that you give them a call. FABO two
four four four four thousand. That is the number, and the website is
Louisville Men's Clinic. So it's probably one of those things that once you,
you know, go talk to them and let them know, you know where
you feel like they could potentially help you. I have full confidence they're going
to do exactly that and help you, and then you'll be wishing that you
did it long a long time ago. So again, louile of Men's Clinic
dot com is the website. FABO two four four four four thousand. All
right, again, stick with us. We got a lot more to get
into. It is coffee and company. We are fueled bout Thornton's right here
on Sports Talk seven ninety so. One of the things I didn't mention when
we were just discussing some minile stuff is that the campaign that was started earlier
this month, it's I mean, it's they They did exactly what they wanted
to do, which was raise a million dollars. So the five A two
circle shared this earlier this week. I believe it might have been Monday that
they officially hit one million dollars donated and one million has been matched by Globe
Brands, which of course is Rick Kiever. And that happened, I mean
Louisville fans, and I believe there were a couple of real sizeable donations from
anonymous people. But either way, I mean, one million dollars raised in
roughly three weeks, and that now leaves you with two million dollars to work
with in the portal. I mean, that's that's awesome. So and that's
just for men's basketball, but they are doing something similar with the women's basketball
program. So I would encourage folks to, you know, if you can
make it work financially, you know, do the same thing. So what
they're going to do is try to get a goal of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars and then two anonymous don't will match. I guess they know who
they are, but they don't want to make it public. So fans collectively
can raise two hundred and fifty thousand that's going to go directly towards Jeff Wallace's
program, and it'll end up being a total of five hundred thousand dollars.
Uh for you know, for in IL that's and again the actual number that
that we hear about players, I still think it's it's extremely exaggerated. But
women's the going rate for women's basketball players in NIL is you know, substantially
lower. I mean you could still get I think you know, you can
still get a couple hundred thousand maybe, But again, like I would say
that that's like if that's the real hot price tag for like a star in
women's college basketball, just like you know, the two million dollar price tag
for a star in men's basketball, I'd say both they're probably exaggerated, but
we'll never know. All Right, it is Coffee and Company, Phil but
Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety eight. Coffee. That's me the company
man, mister John dall On alongside today and if you did, if you
didn't see the news earlier today and we didn't mention it briefly at the beginning
of the show. But Mark Pope, I'll give him credit, he went
out and made a really, really good hire to his staff. So Alvin
Brooks the third is joining the Mark joining the Kentucky staff after I believe it
was eight years working for Scott Drew at Baylor, So they couldn't get Drew,
but they got his assistant and his ace recruiter. And this is this
was key for for Pope because you know, just because you've never been you
know, in those in those living rooms, which again I hate even saying
that, because, like I just I don't really think that's how recruiting works
anymore. Like, hey, uh, let me show up at your at
your mom and dad's house and we'll sit in the living room and I'll tell
him about how how great of a role model I can be for their son,
and I'm gonna turn him into a man. Like that's you know this
in Blue Chips. But just like Pat Kelsey, you know, Mark Pope
is coming from a level of basketball that's just different. And yes, I
know b Yu was in the Big twelve, but that was for one year.
I mean, he was only there one year. So and even that
aside, I mean, BYU is a rare institution compared to most. So
I just I think Pat Kelsey is somebody that the way the reason he kept
his staff the way he did. For the most part, they did go
out and add an additional staffer whose name I forget, but he came from
LSU and had previously been an old miss, so he is actually believed to
be a good recruiter. But I actually think so far, we'll see.
You know, obviously, you know it's very early, but I think what
was said about Pat Kelsey whenever we realized, Okay, it's going to either
be Shirts Kelsey or maybe may I mean, so once you knew you were
going after a guy that had really never been at this level before. All
those who know Pat Kelcey and and you know have have covered him and are
familiar with him, you know, of that pool of mid major type candidates,
everybody said Pat Kelsey would be the guy that would be able to step
to this level and recruit at a high level. Like there wouldn't be a
big adjustment because as we've already learned, and we learned the day he was
introduced as the coach, the man can sell. And you know, I'm
not going to get my hopes up, but it really sounds like Louisville.
I mean, I know everybody's scared a penny hardaway in Memphis, and I
get it, but like I think Louisvell's got a chance to get Jade and
Quainton's I really do, and that would be huge and that would be a
real tell. And now some would say, well, it's just because of
money. And you know, either way, nowadays, when we're going to
be evaluating who is a great recruiter, it's not just you know, selling
and having a brand and having a vision and a resume that shows you can
get guys to the next level. It's also going to be you know,
and it really had nothing to do with you, I guess, I guess
technically it can, right you wouldn't you need to be shaking hands and rubbing
elbows with with big donors and making them feel special and important so they'll give
you money to use for anil So's that's a new layer, a new component
if you will, to how we're going to be evaluating these guys' ability to
recruit. So, you know, I regardless if people would just say,
well, no, that's Pat Kelsey just using you know, the credit card.
Either way, like, trust me, there'll be no slandering of p
K if if he can land you know, the number eight player in America.
But again, I feel like even talking about it is leading to meet
getting my hope. So, but I don't want to do that. I
don't so this this assistant coach from Mark Pope back to the Kentucky side of
it. Alvin Brooks, you know, he's been in he's been in recruiting
battles and won. And Scott Drew is a good coach, and technically,
you know, he gets credit for these recruiting classes. But I've always wondered,
you know, how he can sell and recruit at such a high level
when he's pretty vanilla himself. And it's Baylor in Waco, Texas, And
I'm sure there's a variety of factors that go into them building really good classes
each and every year they win. That's a big part of it. And
they put guys in the league. But I wouldn't be shocked if it turned
out that Alvin Brooks actually was a was a huge factor in them being able
to really just bring in elite players every year. Or Keyante George was a
lottery pick last year as a freshman for him, Jacoby Walker this past year
as a freshman. Another guy that's going to go pro vj Edgecombe one of
the best players in the twenty twenty four class. Then guy looks like an
absolute phenom. Apparently Alvin Brooks was a part of that. I mean,
he was the lead recruiter for that young man. And you can even go
back to Jeremy soshan or so I think it's Ochin. I believe he played
at Baylor in twenty twenty one when they won the title, had like the
yellow hair. So that's a guy who was a one and done and a
lottery pick. So Brooks I think has been a key figure in Baylor's recruiting
success. And now he's going to be coaching at Kentucky, So I think
that was big for Mark Poe. Are you sensing John, you know,
just from what you see out there on the world wide web? I guess
mostly Twitter. I mean, are you feeling Kentucky fans getting uneasy that they
still don't have, like, you know, three players. I think most
of the fans are taking everything in stride, and honestly, I know it
won't be to the same effect as John Caliperry, but I bet by the
time we get to June and July, they'll feel like they've won the offseason
again. Again, not in the exact same way that they would with Cali
Perry, but they're going to go into the fall feeling confident about Mark Pope
in year one. Whether that turns out to be anything, we'll have to
wait and see, but I think they'll be excited. I think all I
think both fan bases can feel a little I mean, everybody's on edge,
and it's not as if you're panicking, as if you're thinking this is going
to be awful. But this is unusual territory for both sides here to literally
be building an entire team, and that's what's happening. But once you see
there's a lot of visits scheduled and lined up from a variety of players,
I think that puts you at ease a little bit, and you know,
like, hey, the process is playing out. I can maybe be a
little bit more patient than you know I was previously. But on the Louisville
side, it's not everybody, but there's some that wants a visit ends,
like for example, Wesley Yates, who was on campus yesterday, the Washington
transfer, former top forty guard from Texas. You know, he may have
ended his visit today. Maybe he's flying home that day. I don't know,
But there are something that's like, well, I guess we'll move on
from him. I don't think you have to commit while you're there. In
fact, I don't think that's really how it happens, and I wouldn't be
shocked if if maybe he did, or maybe Trey or the Long Beach State
transfer did commit, and they're just waiting and staggering it out. So each
each commit can get a couple maybe a few days in the limelight where hey,
they're the new addition, they're the exciting new piece to the team,
and I think that's I think it makes sense and that's the way they should
go about it. So I think Kentucky will who knows, right, maybe
the roster ends up being really good, but I think it's gonna come down
like they're they're maybe not their confidence level, but like their cockiness, because
you know, let's be real, they have a lot of arrogant fans,
and as I've said many times, even though a lot of them are over
the top, like they're arrogance in college basketball is justified, just based off
the fact that they've been a really good program over time, but now it's
a new era. Their coach is not a cocky person. He may be
good, but like Cali Perry again was the perfect fit there because of that
component. But back to Cal Perry, like, I think they're going to
be feeling good and maybe they'll be cocky, but that will only be if
Cali Perry looks as if he had a tough time putting together a team,
and like his team looks like they're not gonna be good. Wohld't you say
so? Yeah, that's fair because that's what they're going to compare themselves to.
Its normal. It's normal. You know, it's totally normal for them
to even if they tell themselves not to. I think the you know,
the the human element is a powerful thing to where you know, if Cal
reels in, which, by the way, John L. Davis, the
FAU transfer, the latest is that he's expected to end up at Arkansas,
which would be a good get. He's one of the top three players in
the portal. So you know, if if if Cal puts together like a
really really good team with a bunch of high caliber transfers, I mean he's
already brought how many of those freshmen I know Boogie Flans visiting UH Arkansas maybe
today or at least he's scheduling one. He's at a Carter nots not gonna
get Jaden Quainton's, which of course was a big piece Billy Richmond did he
ended up at Arkansas. Not sure either way. If cal puts together a
really really good team that has a nice a nice set of good, high
caliber freshmen, but then the bulk of the roster is really good transfers,
and there's all kinds of buzz about Cal Perry and year one at Arkansas,
he's gonna have it rolling. I think that would probably not make Kentucky fans
feeld man. I don't know, maybe it would. I'm not a psychologist,
but like, I don't think they're going to be a chesty if on
paper, it looks like Arkansas is about to be really good in year one.
In Kentucky, you know, looks like they're gonna be a work in
progress, which like that's just the reality of it. It's not to say
they can't end up being good and maybe make a deep run. Who knows.
We're so far away from that. But I am very curious to see
once the rosters do come together, what the average you know, I don't
see average fan, but like, because there'll be some people that are like,
well, if they just make the tournament. I'm gonna happy because man
loible I had made the tournament in years. And there'll be some that say,
no, we're going to hold Pat Kelcey to a high standard. Look
at his roster, he's good. So you know, everybody's gonna have their
own opinions. But I'm just curious, like, what what the what the
consensus is going to be as far as just what should be expected in year
one, And I'm curious to see, like which fan base has more patience.
I think it's got to be Louisville. And it's not because you know,
we're just a much more patient fan base. It's just because of the
situation. We're coming off of two miserable years that we never want to remember.
So you know, the bar is so low for Pat Kelsey to give
us a lot more than what we had in the last couple of years,
and I think you can do even better than that. It's just, you
know, it's tough to really go there whenever we don't even know for sure
who's who's going to be on the team yet, all right, so have
you I know, yesterday the big news was the the the the ending of
non competes, which I kind of feel once again, you know, like
a dummy, Like I know what a non compete is. I have a
non compete. It's very common in in you know, this world of media,
radio, broadcasting, TV, that kind of stuff, but I didn't
realize how many. And for those who know, so the FTC voted to
ban non compete agreements. It will I mean, I think it's going to
be challenged and we'll see what happens from there. But like, this is
a huge piece of news that I guess if you've never had a non compete,
and you don't, it's not something that you ever see in your line
of work that I'm sure you don't. You don't give a damn And I
get it, but I was I had no clue that, like you can
be a construction worker, you can work at a fast food restaurant, and
there are some you know, some employers that have have it in there that
there's a non compete, which you know, it's always been really really stupid,
but I just assumed it was. You know, again, like I've
non competes have never impacted me in a negative way, right, Like I've
never had an issue where I wanted to leave somewhere, Like It's never been
an issue for me, but I've always thought, you know, the basis
of it is like if they fire me, I can't go work somewhere in
you know, a field that was six months or something like that. Yeah,
in the field. I mean this, you know it, This is
this industry of radio is obviously you know, it's evolving quite a bit each
year. But although you know I say that, but I think most people
realize this. There's still a ton of people that listen to the radio every
single day of their life because of their trip in the car, or they're
listening maybe just on the app because they're at homes. Like there's listenership is
not an issue, it's just the way people consume it. It's different.
But what I was getting at is like if I ever didn't want to do
this anymore, or if I got fired and you know, couldn't get a
new gig, I'm not really sure what I would do. But like in
my adult life, this is now my this is what I do. Like
I've done this longer than I've done anything else, and therefore, like if
I needed to go get a job and provide for my family. It's not
as easy to do because again, these aren't positions that you just see,
you know, hundreds of in every city or whatever. Like it's just it's
unique. But like it would be what I would try to do because it's
the best way where I can say, hey, here's who I am,
this is what I do, and you know, please hire me. I'm
poor like that kind of thing. So this is I mean, I just
I'm almost speechless as far as like what this could what this could do for
not just this industry, but like a lot of industries. And again,
did you know that, John, Like there's like entry level jobs that are
not lucrative, and like there were it all started from like a Jimmy John's
employee that like if they if they got fired, they couldn't go work at
a restaurant within so many miles of a Jimmy John's. I mean, just
think about that. I did not know that because you can and and what
really and again this has never happened to me, but I'm sure it's happened
to many others that have fallen in this non compete situation. You know,
they can hold that over your head, like you know, you better be
you better do whatever I say and just suck it up and deal with potentially
a toxic work environment or whatever it may be, because we can you're asked
and you can't work, and you don't have to go, you know,
you have to go get a job doing something else. Like I doubt that
that's you know that there have been many managers or bosses that have said that
exact thing, but they could they could, they could say without saying it
and and just know that you're stuck. So this is huge. I mean,
there are hairstylists that that have worked in salons that have that have that
have you know, because I guess it's part of the fine print, because
I feel like in something. Again, what do I know? I've not
had a variety of different jobs. This is again, this is what I've
done my adult life more than anything else. But if I was going to
take one of those positions, it you know, rather it be a construction
or a salon, a hairstylist, or an employee at a restaurant, which
just sounds crazy, Like I would know that I could get other jobs doing
that, to where I would say, I'm not signing that that's not worth
it. I don't know, I'm getting ready to start this job. I
would agree to that. Now this could suck and I would want to leave.
But maybe people don't look at it, or maybe they just assume,
or maybe it is the case that like every type of business, every business
that falls under that that category does it. But it's a big deal,
no doubt. And then take the words from Terry Minors, we all contentally
get in our own transfer portal. Now, yeah, I mean I guess
technically, you know, we could, and that's just weird to think about
it. I mean, I mean, I'm not that I'm thinking about doing
it, but you know, it's just it's it's been I mean, here
I am in my own bubble because I know there are sales professionals out there
that have that have always hit a non compete and it's impacted their ability to
go you know, you know that take tom off and lose money because of
you know, the agreement they had with their previous employer. But you know,
I just always think about TV and radio to where you know, people
are usually at a because here's the thing, if your contract runs out,
by the way, they never let that happen because they you know, they
want to make sure that you can't just up and leave and go across the
street at a different at a different TV station or something if you wanted to.
So, you know, I think even I could be wrong here,
and I guess everybody's contracts different, but I think if you just decided you
weren't you weren't gonna sign again, they would pressure you and almost force you
to or find out, you know, they would they would take that as
if you're leaving and probably do something about it and get rid of you.
But yeah, they would always there's it's just never been a scenario where you
could literally go from one place to the other, regardless if your contract ended
or if you got fired for like at least six months, usually longer than
that, and denote it. Now like potentially you could do that. It's
just crazy. All right, quick break, we will keep this thing rolling
along. Appreciate you guys hanging out with US Coffee and Company. I feel
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so this Texas, Nick, what are their percentage? What do you think
the percentage chances are that Louisville lends another commitment before your show ends. You
asked me that a thirty minutes ago, roughly, I mean, I don't
know. I mean, let's get the coffee crystal balls sit a couple of
days ago. There's a sixty five percent chance they won't, thirty five percent
chance they will. I mean, I'm just guessing. I don't know.
I mean, I do think when you don't. Again, I said this
earlier. What the best way I've been able to you know, at least
be somewhat accurate. And again I'm just guessing like anybody else. But the
pattern that I follow is visits that are scheduled for these guys. So if
you visited Louisville and there at least isn't any reporting out there as far as
other schools you're going to go visit, and the noise the buzz that the
visit went really well, then I would assume that you know, you could
you could. I mean that to be that that could be Yates. Wesley
Yates, the transfer from Washington who visited yesterday maybe still here today, I'm
not sure. Or it could also be Trey or the Long Beach State transfer,
which I still think they're in good shape. And what makes me think
that they've got a good chance of getting him is because again I'm certainly not
plugged in like others are, but I don't see other schools lining him up
for visits, which maybe that means that he's ready to commit to Louisville and
it'll happen soon, so you never know. Now. One thing to keep
in mind that you know, I'll be honest with you. I would have
never known, but somebody's telling me this the other day, and it makes
total sense that if you have a guy who's been injured before, you know
you can, you can be all in and say hell yeah, like you
know, let's do this, we want, we want you and you know
I can't talk to you about it, but you know, you talk to
whoever about the NIL package and we're good to go. But the school is
still going to do I guess the program is still going to do their due
diligence and make sure that these guys are going to be able to play right.
They want to make sure that they can get somebody to review something or
maybe do some kind of a medical evaluation in some form or fashion. So
that would be the case I would assume with Wesley Yates, considering the fact
that you know, he didn't play last year because of an injury. So
I don't think it's serious and I think he is going to be fully fine
next year. But that's more. I wouldn't call it a formality, but
that's just really covering your rear end, because let's be real, somebody could
easily know that they've got an injury that they're not really going to be able
to play through, and you know, maybe they're going to need surgery,
but they don't want to do. Like, you know, I think this
would be a very rare situation, But it would not shock me at all
if somebody's out there back chasing money for NIL knowing that they are not gonna
be able to play right like, that wouldn't shock me at all. In
fact, you know, you never know. But Tyler Barron, the guy
who transferred with his step brother from Tennessee that left earlier this week, I
mean, he didn't play because he's injured, And I would never indicate that
somebody's not injured when they claim that they are. But you know, you
know, you'll never know that for sure, Like I mean, he kind
of just couldn't go, is what it sounds like. So sometimes these guys,
it may be done, and maybe Pat Kelsey, the player, everybody
involved wants it to be public, but there's, you know, a little
bit of a process that goes with it. All right, Let's see back
to the text Lin five O two six five three zero seven ninety. It's
the Ellen and Federal Credit Union tex Line. This text says, Nick,
who do you believe will be the first low of a player drafted this weekend?
I would say it's most likely going to be Jarvis Browne, cornerback,
who, of course, you know, had a heck of a season this
past you really had a good run at Louisville. It's either going to be
him, or I would say Jamari Thresh. But then again, like his
injury last year, and there's so many receivers in this draft, and I
think he'll get drafted, but you know where it is, I'm not sure.
Like he's somebody that I think the range is pretty wide for him,
and there's a lot to like there, not that I'm an NFL scout,
but he's really good and I could see him having a good career in the
NFL. Isaac Garrindo, maybe he'll be in the mix at some point.
And running backs specifically are always tough to know because you could get I mean,
I hope both Grindo and Jordan get drafted, but it wouldn't totally shock
me if like they don't, because running backs, for guys you can just
go sign and I hate that for the position. I don't know what you
could do about it, but you know, just because that position is not
as valuable as it once was. Now you need a good running back,
but you can now get the work done without giving somebody. I mean,
it's just I don't know what you do to fix it, but you know,
the window for these guys to make a lot of money is a lot
shorter because you can't play that position nearly as long as you can other positions.
And you know, when you've got a chance to cash in, it's
so easy for a team to just tell, you know, because the proof
is there, you know, giving your primary running back who's been super effective,
really good, one of the league's best giving him a long term deal
with a lot of guaranteed money on it. Has one ever worked out?
I mean, I'm sure you can find one that was maybe a three year
deal or something like that, but like it just that's I think the evidence
makes it clear that most organizations, honestly understandably so are gonna be mindful of
that. Like if you are growing up playing football and you are in the
at the age where you're still developing, like you're you know, you're you
know, you're you're sharing, we're talking, you know, I don't know,
I'm fifteen years old or something, and you know, like you could
play like you have some familiarity with a few different positions, why would you
pick running back? Like, if that's true, what you know would be
your calling card and that is the best chance for you to get noticed and
you know, get a scholarship, potentially make the NFL. Then you know,
obviously, but if you know, you can do other things too.
Like that's at an age where like if I'm a parent, I would say,
look, I think you're a good running back. We can make some
plays. You can play in high school, but I want you to to
really show what you can do as a defensive back because you've got the ability.
Let's sharpen up those skills, because of longevity and because of you know,
I mean just I mean, I would never tell my kid he couldn't
play the position that I wanted him to play. But Adrian Peterson talked about
that a few years ago. How if he could go back, he would
have never played running back? And I get it all right, We've got
two hours in the books with one more to go. Let's finish strong.
I say, lets as if you guys are going to be required to do
anything, you got to sit back, make yourself at home. The company
man John's got us in good hands. You want to host the show,
I'm gonna leave see you just nothing. But who's your talk? Right?
That's right? Talking about Aaron Casey in the draft? Who's that Indiana's linebacker?
Probably the only guy who might get drafted from Indiana's roster? What range
we looking at? Rounds five through seven before gas? When's the last time
Indiana had got drafted. They've had a few the past few years. It's
been a while since they've had a draft without somebody. They's usually gonna have
a lot. How about that, and it'll it's all gonna change. It's
gonna be a very lot of Signette flavor in these future drafts, right,
a lot. It's a lot of sig dupness. Love it all right,
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