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day, Now here's Nick Coffee. I'm as guilty as anybody when it comes
to, you know, given the local meteorologists here a hard time whenever they're
incorrect, but they were correct about this awful heat that we have. I
mean, I think we knew it was going to be hot, they warned
us, and sure enough, it is very hot. It's ninety five degrees
as we speak. Air qualities disgusting, and they have canceled my my son's
football practice. Makes sense, I don't I know there's a specific number that
they got a if there, if it's above you know, a certain yeah
heat index, then they won't they won't let them play, which is the
right thing to do, of course, but yeah, no practice for him,
which is just confirmation that it's that disgusting outside. And in today one
of those days, John, I haven't even spent that much time outside,
thankfully, but like it's it's it's just a reminder that when it comes down
to the summer, it all depends on heat index, air quality, because
it's just it feels like we're walking outside in a microwave, like we're in
we're in a microwave outside. Yeah, I hate it. This is the
hottest day of the year so far, is it. That's not surprising,
Yeah, because I think we we've had we had we had several days.
I think this shoe got it. We had a lot of days where we
were in the nineties in a row, but we never got this hot specifically.
So this is the worst it's felt all year long. Yeah, I
think it was it whenever I was in I think you're on vacation or one
of your vacations. Yeah, I think it might have been when when I
was in Florida, because I remember talking to some friends and family that was
that were back here. They were saying, like, it's actually way warmer
here than it is in Florida, which you know, I enjoyed that because
I don't love this kind of heat and it's disgusting. But anyways, stay
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seven to ninety Louisville dot Com. We have talked quite a bit throughout the
show here and there about the big day. The new EA Sports college football
game is out and it is completely consumed my timeline on Twitter, which I'm
not complaining. I mean, we knew it was coming. It's consumed my
timeline to an extent even long before it came out because there's been so much
anticipate anticipation about this game. But yeah, I mean even people like if
you go to the you never check the for you on Twitter, right,
rarely? Yeah, if I have a reason to like sometimes whenever Twitter shows
you what's new, it'll favor your for you and I'll look at that occasionally
depending on who it is, but I usually stay on the following side.
Yeah, the the following side is usually I mean again that's quite literally,
you're only going to see people that you chose to follow, which is where
it's usually in order of Yes, it was tweeted, yep, no doubt
about it. But even you know, with that, I didn't realize I
followed that many people that were going to be you know, all in on
this game. I do have a little bit of envy, because you know,
it's there's something awesome about about being excited about something that's about to come
out and you get to, you know, enjoy it, and I just,
you know, I can't relate. I guess is this is I guess
this is an actual unexpected case of fomo, which, by the way,
U of L just tweeted this out. I haven't even heard it yet,
so it may not be. I may be wasting my time here, but
the official U of L Twitter account football account put out a little video here
that shows It shows the fans and the stands. It shows, Uh,
let me see, is there any narration here? Let's see, man,
Llouisville, Kentucky. They love there were breds who know how to run down
this drench, ain't get to the wire firked and certainly they see plenty up
in tier from Johnny Unitas to Lamar Jackson. Today the louis the Cardinals will
try to live up to that magazine. God, it looks so real.
I mean, we just talked about that. But seeing this this, I
mean, first of all, because I know the tunnel that they're about to
walk out of like, I know, that's exactly what it looks like right
there. And I think when you're not doing gameplay and you're and there's not
a here's what it is. When there's not a ton of movement like running,
that's where it looks freakishly real. So I wish I had a PS
five or an Xbox for this. Go get one. You got big money.
Oh I know what they pay you around here. Well, now,
if you were going to go get a new gaming system, would you get
a PS whatever? Yeah, I've always been in PlayStation, same year.
That's all I really ever knew before PlayStation though, I was second Genesis.
Oh yeah, it was a Hedgehog right, Oh yeah, son that was
Sonics game, no doubt. So again, it's freakishly real. However,
I do want to remind you folks, just in case you get lost a
little bit in the gameplay, it is not It is not real. I
thought. What Chris Vanini a college football writer who joins us on the show
from time to time. He works for The Athletic. He had a great
write up about him. He's actually been playing the game for the last week.
But there's the road to glory mode where you just start as a player
in high school and you get recruited, and of course now you can hit
the portal. You can evaluate nil options that are being offered to you.
I'm sure and this level of I mean making it real, I mean,
this is just it is cool. Like I'll be honest with you, it's
cool. I probably will ever play the game. But to know that whenever
you are, you know, probably creating yourself and you're doing the Road to
Glory and you're a college football player, you're going to be tempted to do
things that could potentially, you know, be a big risk for you.
So Vannini wrote here in his ride up that when he created himself and did
the Road to Glory mode, he accepted a party invite from a teammate and
the coach found a photo of them partying and it docked his trust point that
he had within his coach. So like, they value that kind of stuff.
Also, a classmate helped him cheat on a test and boosted his GPA
and he got caught a week later and got in trouble. So like those
are the kind of things that make it seem like it's real life. And
you know, again, I'm just here to remind you that it's not all
right. We've also talked a little bit about the SEC today. It's day
one of the SEC media days, and at this point it doesn't seem as
if there's been a whole lot to really take from that, you know,
and usually there's not. It's talking season, right. However, Greg Sankie
was asked about expansion and he he seems to be consistent. I don't think
the SEC has done any kind of hint or potential sit I mean, usually
you don't put it out there what you want to do, but now you've
got, in fact, was the commissioner of the Big Ten, the guy
who ended up leaving to go work for the Bears? Is he the one
who actually facilit Was he still around whenever the West Coastchools decided to come the
Big Ten? Kevin Warren? Yeah, so he is somebody that if you
remember, he was openly I mean, I guess maybe I'm wrong there because
he did actually talk about always keeping options open for expansion, and you know,
well, you know, and they did. And now you've got the
new Big twelve commissioner, Brett Yormark, who has at every point talked about
always looking to grow, and I think it's quite clear that if they can
add, they will meeting the Big twelve. But the SEC, you know,
the Oklahoma and Texas to the SEC is such a substantial move in such
a substantial piece of news in college football whenever it was announced. But I
don't think there. I mean, it just came out of nowhere. I
remember we were on our way. I think we were on our way to
Destin, and I remember, you know, out of nowhere, broken became
of course a huge story. And you know that's that's expansion for good reason,
right, you added two huge brands. I mean, that's that just
made the SEC even stronger. But I've always felt as if the SEC will
be the most likely conference that will show us that you don't expand just to
expand, because I don't really know who they could go get that wouldn't make
them better. So Clemson in Florida state, I think the belief is that
if they could get out of that grand of rights deal with the ACC,
that they could probably find their way in the in the in the SEC of
the Big Ten. But you know, I don't see any I've not seen
any reporting or coverage of these lawsuits. That makes it look as if these
two schools, Clemson in Florida State are going to have a successful lawsuit to
get out of the grand of rights. I mean, again, I'm no
legal expert, and maybe I'm not looking in the right areas, but it's
a pretty it's a pretty state. It's a pretty straightforward situation. They agreed
to it, they signed it, and initially, whenever they signed on and
everybody in the acc agreed to this arrangement, they were bra they were they
were celebrating it as if it was great because it unifies everybody. So it's
a little bit of buyer's remorse as far as the contract they signed. But
it's a contract for a reason. So the SEC I just don't I mean,
I think I think Sanke is being genuine when he says that, you
know, he's just focused on their sixteen members. And he did say he
doesn't have any comment on Clemson or Florida State in that lawsuit, which again
is a pretty expected answer when it comes to that. So maybe they would
have interest if those two schools become available, But what is Clemson in Florida
State giving the sec that they don't already have. I mean, they've got
South Carolina that's where Clemson is, of course, I mean they've got Florida
and the rest of the South, So it could get it would make you
a better league, no doubt, because those are good programs. But again,
how much more money are you bringing in by adding those two? You'll
clearly get a bump, But is it worth doing it? Because you know
everybody's got to share this this stuff equally, So I don't see the SEC
making any expansion anytime soon unless something unexpected happens, which, of course a
lot of unexpected things have happened throughout conference realignment. Now, John did make
a good point. I think he's totally right. The one school that could
give us a big shake up here in realignment if they ever decided to join
a conferences Notre Dame, because they would have value that really. Like not
to say Notre Dame is the greatest program of all time, because they're clearly
not. But Notre Dame is as unique as any college football program I can
think of, wouldn't you say, John? I mean they're independent and they
have a national audience. We talked about the NBC deal. I mean it's
crazy. They have several associations with a lot of good Power five teams,
or they've played over the years and and they've they've made the college football National
Championship a couple of times. They haven't won in a while, but they're
a big name. Yeah, Notre Dame getting their ear in kicked when they
get to the playoff with the national championship game has oftentimes had people acting as
if that means they're not they're not worthy, and it doesn't. I mean,
I think every other team that was fighting for a playoff spot probably would
have been killed by the teams that killed Notre Dame and we'll never know.
But like, just because you got beat bad in the playoff doesn't mean that
you that you weren't, that you didn't earn the spot to get there.
And Notre Dame doesn't play in a conference because they don't have to. Their
schedule is usually tough enough to where it's not viewed as like, oh god,
they're they're they're really, you know, they found a loophole here.
They can they cannot have a conference and you know, win eleven games.
Now, they usually played pretty good teams, all right. Something else we
discussed from the SEC Media Day day one is Nick Saban making his debut.
Of course, he's been there many times as a coach. Now he's working
for ESPN, and he showed up without his credential, which of course is
a nightmare scenario if you're a media hack like myself. So I mean,
somebody should have been there to remind Nick Saban that, you know, just
because you're Nick Saban doesn't mean you're gonna get you know. And I've seen
people who have credentials, like their credential media and they forgot it, or
they lost it, or they you know, they got that paper when they
don't want to attach to their belt loops, so they put it in their
bag. And just about every place I've been to that requires credentials, you
know, for media access, they'll find out if you want if you don't
have it publicly, you know, there's there's people that stand there and their
only job is to look at everybody who walks by and make sure they have
the proper credential displaying. And I guess Nick Saban tried to pull it off
today and he was turned away. It's a little different. I'm never a
credential in my life and was always for seventeen years able to get in the
SEC media day without a credential. I had to go back to the room
today and get my credential to get in. So that's one of the biggest
changes I see. It's not like it used to be. So I was
a little I was a little curious to see if we would hear Sabin right
away sort of favor Alabama because it would wouldn't it be unnatural not to?
I mean, Ken say, I think Saban can be honest, but like
he loves Alabama, He's he mean, I think it's almost impossible for him
to be biased. Again, I think you can, well maybe I guess
you can have favoritism and clearly have a preferred outcome, Like I'm sure Nick
Saban wants Alabama to win every national championship the rest of the way because you
know, that's where he coached for so long and had such a great run.
But you know, he could tell you if he thinks it's going to
happen or not, because when he was taking his shots at Texas and oklah
Home earlier, which we'll let you guys hear that. If you didn't,
you know what kind of tickles me is all these people asking these questions about
how Texas always ran the conference they were in. They're not going to run
the SEC. Yeah, right, there's a whole lot of arrogant people in
a lot of places in so I'll forget all about it. Yeah, they'll
be a good team and a great program and Stark will do a great job.
But that's not going to be a problem. So I don't know.
I heard that earlier and I thought maybe that could be that Saban is,
you know, saying that because of his affiliation with the SEC and maybe even
Alabama a little bit. But he did predict the SEC championship game and he
did not have bam Inn and he had Georgia and Texas, which, again,
Texas is entering the league at a perfect time because they are coming off
of a breakthrough season, got all the way to the playoff with Sark,
and they bring back quin Yours, who's one of the best quarterbacks in the
country. So they should be able to be highly competitive, like they should
be one of the best teams in the SEC. They should because they're one
of the best teams in the country. But had this move happened, you
know, really any other time in the last couple of years. I really
wonder what the conversation would be like, because we know Texas feels great about
themselves because you know, they've larger than life, you know, when it
comes to their presence. I mean, they're trying to do it without making
the you know, the weak attempted humor about how big Texas is. But
I mean, they have a huge fan base, they have an unlimited amount
of money, and they do have tradition, but like, they've never really
had the results that back up them feeling the way they do about themselves.
And I guess you could say that about a lot of fan bases, but
this, this stat really puts it in perspective that, like, this notion
that they've been dominating Texas and Oklahoma have been dominating the Big Twelve is just
not true. Dennis Dodd was on a show earlier at the SEC Media Days
and highlighted the fact that they've only won, meaning Texas and Oklahoma have only
won eleven of the last twenty seven Big Twelve titles before they left for the
SEC. So those two schools I think have been the bully in the Big
Twelve. But it's just because they they hold more weight. They've always mattered
more and they know that, and they've used that and they've told people that.
But as far as like actually winning, they haven't been that successful.
And I said earlier, I think Oklahoma is going to be a really good
case study as far as you know, life in the Big twelve and life
in the SEC because I wouldn't be shocked if they end up being, you
know, just like a Kentucky as far as a record, not you know,
not like consistently, but just this year. Wouldn't be shocked if they're
if they're you know, a Kentucky or an Auburn or something like that in
that tier. But if they end up coming in there and being you know,
in that group that includes Tennessee and who else. Sure, I think
who else is expected to be you know, oh miss oh miss of course,
you know, they're a team that a lot of people think could make
make it to the playoff this year. Missouri is coming off a monster season.
I don't know if that's sustainable, but they certainly have momentum. Now
if Oklahoma end's up closer to that, then they do the Kentucky's in the
Auburns, then you know who knows what it proves, but I just wish
we could have some type of you know, some type of result that would
really let us know, as if if the SEC schools that finish four and
four, three and five, but do win six or seven games and go
to a bowl, they just you know, not even just themselves meeting their
fans and their programs, but like college football folks, they just assume because
they play in the SEC, well you know, they're three and five or
four and four, is astronomically different than a four and four or a five
and three, Big twelve or Big Big ten or ACC team. And they've
oftentimes got the benefit of doubt because that is the best league in the country.
But I'm telling you last year, and maybe it's just one year,
but in that year specifically, the or the SEC did not deserve to be
viewed as this just you know, the NFL compared to everybody else in college
football, because again, they went out and played teams of other Power five
leagues and they didn't win. In fact, they had a bad record I
think in non conference games against Power five programs. All right, uh,
let's see, let's do this. Let's uh, let's take a look at
this list real quick before we get to our next break. I do want
to warn you we're not going to talk politics by any means, but I
want you guys to hear this psychic who did an interview four months ago.
I'm gonna play it on the other side, but this psychic who was on
some podcast talking about the solar eclipses that were about to happen. He started
sharing some visions and some things that he that he saw happening in the future.
In the detail of what he broke down four months ago. As far
as Donald Trump and an attempted assassination, it was like, exactly what happened,
and it's crazy. Also, there's something Trump did while on stage that
was, you know, him doing what he does. And it's not just
him, it's you know, when you're in a camp, you're campaigning to
win an election, you're gonna oftentimes not only talk about why you're great,
but you're going to talk bad about the guy you're running against. So in
one of his many attacks on Biden, and he had a graft that showed
some evidence he moved to a certain he moved away and had he not done
that, he probably be dead, which is kind of crazy to think about.
So we'll get to that a little bit later on, but real quick,
this list from the NFL. In fact, it's a poll. I
shouldn't call it a list, it's a poll. So the NFL ESPN what
they do. They reach out to everybody in the NFL, coaches, executive,
scouts and they have them individually ranked the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
And you know, it's anonymous, and you could, you know, you
could lie on there if you're one of these people. I would hope that
they don't. But you know, this is these are people who are in
like this is their livelihood, right, like they scout, they coach in
the league. Like I think their opinion of who's really good it matters more
than you know, writers. And that's not to say writers can't have strong
opinions, because they can. Just because they've never played in the NFL don't
mean they can't have an opinion. But I think there's something to be said
about this being a little different knowing that these are your peers and this is
what they think of you. So no surprise, Patrick Mahomes is the top
quarterback in the NFL, according to those in the NFL, followed by Joe
Burrow and then Josh Allen and then Lamar Jackson came in at number four,
which I don't know. I feel like Lamar did enough to where he should
be ahead of Josh Allen, but you know that's maybe I'm a little biased.
I mean, Lamar does have two MVPs, and you know last year,
Lamar's team was better than I mean, I feel like that window it's
not closing yet. But if Josh Allen is going to bring the Bills something
special, like you know, we've been hearing that for like three four years
and they've been good. They just I feel like every time there's belief that
they're going to break through, they fall short. Joe Burrow has when healthy,
really good, and him taking the Bengals to a Super Bowl is still
something that I when I say it out loud, I have to question myself
that that really happen. But it did. But this is the first time
Lamar has been at number four, or I'm sorry, been in the top
five, which gosh, I mean, just to think that he wasn't in
the top five after he won it first MVP, I feel like that that
sounds surprising, but then again, you know, he was still so young
and you still had other I mean remember at that time Brady was still playing.
So after Lamar, it's Matthew Stafford at number five, Justin Herbert number
six, and c J. Stroud ended up cracking the top ten and the
number actually, yes, at number nine, I'm sorry, Number ten was
Dak Prescott and this doesn't give me the exact order of it, but the
other was was Aaron Rodgers, So Dak was tenth. I don't think Rogers
was ninth, but he certainly wasn't. Maybe he was number five. The
way this this little write up here about in the list itself, for some
reason they chose not to actually include everybody. But I have no I mean,
I have no real gripe with that. I can't I can't think of
anybody that I feel like was just you know, blatantly disrespected by being left
off. And C J. Stroud I mean that that. I think the
results that he had as a rookie, like they they sucked the Texans and
I don't even really know if they have great personnel, and they weren't great
last year, but you know they were, I mean, heck, they
ended my Colts season, and you know, C. J. Stroud was
a really, really, really good rookie quarterback last year, so we'll see
if it's sustainable. But he looked, he looked the part. And I
think this is the kind of year where somebody like, I mean, I
feel like we've been saying it for years about Dak, but certainly with like
Justin Herbert, I feel like Herbert and Stafford for two different reasons. For
Stafford, you got to wonder if he's still you know, if he still
has it. And then with Herbert, I mean, I won't claim to
be this QB guru, but I feel like he's oftentimes been viewed as one
of the most overrated quarterbacks in the NFL. All right, quick break,
We'll come back on the other side. Keep this thing rolling along again.
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seven ninety. So. I think what happened on Saturday with Donald Trump and
Pennsylvania, where you know, somebody attempted to kill him, it's something that
will always be viewed, I would assume, and that kind of I mean
that that stuff doesn't happen very often. Therefore, you know, it's it's
wild, it's crazy, it's surprising. But we are currently, I think,
in a time where the climate is pretty crazy and unbelievable to where the
shock value is just not what it once was because of, you know,
the way things are. So obviously, it was an awful thing that happened,
and the you know idiot who did that is now dead. But I
don't know, I just it's one of the I feel like it's not a
stretch to say that it's one of the craziest things that's happened in the United
States in my lifetime. I mean, he's okay, and that's good,
but like, could have easily died, and that would have been I mean,
I can't imagine what the aftermath would have been like had he actually been
killed. Same here. I mean, so luckily that didn't happen. But
I mean it's I don't know, Like I had myself a heck of a
day Saturday. We had a good time at at my nephew's birthday party,
and then we went to have dinner with friends, end up coming back to
our house, and you know, there's obviously something a lot of us.
I mean, I think we're a point now where people who don't even really
bring up politics to friends and family just because it's you know, it's not
their thing. I mean, it's this has this current election I should say,
like it's it's just different than any election I can think of. And
some would say it's for awful reasons because of the two candidates that are here.
But there's an And I hate saying entertainment because like if it's things that
are really worrisome to you as a as a citizen of the United States,
like that shouldn't be something we laugh at. But then again, like that's
kind of my nature. That's how I you know, what do they say
laugh to not cry? Like I would be exaggerating if I told you any
this stuff brings me to tears. But it's just I don't know. I
oftentimes still think like is this real? Like did that really happen? And
you know it did. So there's somebody on Twitter who goes by Mars Army
General and I don't this is I'm sorry, that's a different that's that's somebody
who shared the tweet, but the actual it's a good line in TV.
This guy's got forty thousand followers. He's a filmmaker. He put together a
thread that has gone insanely viral. It's got seven million views and it's easy
to find. But you know, one is he just has the here's the
title, it says, one of the craziest threads, and it just has
a bunch of stuff from what happens Saturday. For example, one it's the
crazy photo of him leaned over with blood falling down his face. And then
there's a video that is two and a half minutes long and it says one
of the cleanest videos of the shooting, and you know it's it's there's actually
a picture of the of the person who shot who is now dead, which
I wouldn't look at that if you're you know, if you don't like looking
at graphic images like that. So there's like twenty different tweets here in this
thread that just bring up certain things about it. One is a good breakdown
of the whole thing that is condensed. One is the a joke that was
told by Shane Gillis many years ago. One is one of the interviews from
the eyewitnesses that was there. So it's just a good little breakdown of everything
that happened. But one of these things is just unbelievable, and that is
this profit slash psychic, yes, psychic, whatever you want to call him.
He was on and I just assume, well, there's no way this
is real, Like this is just this is this is fake news, fake
footage, because with AI you can really you can really doctor stuff. But
because everybody was asking is this real, people found the original YouTube video where
this interview took place. It was it was roughly four months ago, where
this psychic was talking about the solar eclipse which was about to happen at that
point, and he shared something about Trump that actually ended up happening. So
you never know what to believe. But the original like YouTube has the video
published. That's where I watched it, and it shows that it was uploaded
four months ago. So like it's clear. I mean, am I Am
I a sucker for believing that that's real? I mean able to do that
because Yeah, the one the one thing I can remember that was kind of
similar and not as serious. Back when one of the World Cups was going
on, there was an account that was supposedly predicting who was winning in that
kind of stuff, and it had dates on when the tweets were being tweeted
out, but those somehow ended up being doctored to win, you know,
not being an actual tweet. So I know you're talking about. Yeah,
I just don't know how you you know, you can probably screen and grab
and it shows a date that is doctored. But as far as like if
you go to the link and the link shows you what date that was published,
I just don't think there'd be a way to fake that. But again,
you know, maybe I'm wrong, but this was let me see,
this was this was three months ago. And again this this is this is
creepy all throughout America, all throughout And I saw Trump rising up and then
I saw attempt on his life. Uh that this bullet flew by his ear
and it came so close to his head that it busted his drum, ear
drum, and I saw he was He fell to his knees during this time
frame, and he started worshiping the Lord. He got radically born again.
So later on it's just you know, stuff that we don't need to hear
about. But I mean, he didn't bust his ear drum. But like
this guy claims he had that vision. That's what he That's where the audio
starts there as him describing this vision about Trump getting shot and it hitting his
ear, and that's I mean, that's exactly. I mean, that's just
crazy to me. I mean, is this thing getting the attention that if
it's true, you know, probably needs to be. Man, that's what
I was looking for, because again I wanted to share with you, and
maybe I got got somehow, but that's why. Yeah, if you so,
if you if you look at this, the initial tweet that just has
this video that is part of this thread, you'll see people responding to this
specific tweet and they're they're pulling the time stamp from that from that YouTube video
and you can. And that's what I did. I went and watched it
just to make sure like it wasn't, you know, something that everybody was
falling for. So, I mean, I've never believed much in psychics,
but this has at least given them a win over me, because that's that's
pretty that's pretty insane. Also, when when you look at the timing of
when the actual you know, the shot took place, this is just divine
intervention. So he kept pointing at the illegal immigration on this, you know,
but done by Biden. It was on this chart, and yeah,
it says he had there been no chart, you know, and you know,
I guess no legal legal immigration, it wouldn't he probably wouldn't have been
moving around and gesturing the way he was to where like the I mean,
they do have a picture here that like show. I mean, I don't
know if you I don't know if anybody's done any real like science to determine
like the trajectory of the bullet and all that kind of stuff. But clearly,
if a shot from that far away hits his ear, I mean,
any little movement one way or the other could go right through your head.
I mean, it's it's crazy. So anyways, this since there's no other
time to bring this up that would that would that would fit. So this
is just a survey from you gov poll, which I know when you bring
up this kind of stuff, a lot of people were just you know,
if it doesn't show them what they want to hear, what they believe,
they're just going to assume it's all fake. But I actually thought this was
interesting, and I think regardless of what you think about politics, or what
you think about these two candidates, or what you think about the election,
you know, if you live in America, Like, you know, this
kind of stuff matters to people. But it says the majority of Americans say
inflation is a very serious problem. I think that's quite clear. But this
recent you gov poll which found that voters, it's found that voters are more
likely to approve of Donald Trump's handling of the issue rather than Biden. Again,
I don't really think that that's I mean, I don't think that's untrue,
to be honest with you, just my opinion, and this says The
survey also found that for Democrats, the most serious issue, the most serious
issues that the country faces are gun violence and climate change. Nearly two thirds
of Americans say inflation is a very serious problem in the US, but the
other top issues are corruption, drug abuse, homelessness, weakening of democracy,
and a shortage of affordable housing. So, you know, I know there
are plenty of people who you know, probably aren't comfortable saying this, and
maybe some people are very comfortable saying this. But I feel like this is
going to be an election where people will look at both candidates and not really
love either one and not feel great about either side, but they're going to
make a vote based off of how they feel like it will affect them as
you know everyday people, right, and inflation is so insane right now at
a level that, like I think people will just say, hey, look
who can prove to me which one of these guys is actually going to make
living in this country a little more affordable for somebody who, you know,
not that long ago, would be considered upper middle class. It's just crazy.
So you know, who knows how it all plays out. But I
mean, among many things people are probably concerned about in the country, inflation's
got to be up there for most. I mean again, everybody's different.
Maybe some people have a whole lot of money and they never have to worry
about it. If that's the case, then you know, good for you.
But I know there are people, I mean again, people are getting
second jobs just to have a little more breathing room. And these are people
who have like good careers that make you know, what used to be considered
a pretty good or really good living outside of you know, being wealthy.
I mean, you factor in just what everything costs top to bottom, and
it's it's hard for people who again I feel like not that long ago,
they probably weren't planning on retiring super early, but they weren't stressing over money
the way they are now. And I know that there's some people that say,
well, hey, you can do better, cut you know, cut
expenses, you know, make some sacrifices and all. That's true, but
there are certain things like you can't just get Like the most expensive things are
things you can't get rid of, Like we have to pay for childcare,
and you know you don't if you don't want to have, you know,
pay for child care, you don't have kids. Like I know people say
that kind of stuff, but I mean, like that's that response is nonsense.
So anyways, that's enough for our political stuff today. Let's get to
a quick break. We'll come back on the other side. Wrap this thing
up at is Coffee and Company. Philbeth Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety all
right, not a lot of time left here, so let's run through some
things quickly that I did not get a chance to mention just yet. One
Louisville's TBT team Deville is going to be without Kyle Kurrick in the tournament.
I'm not sure what has happened. Hopefully it's not something crazy, but they
announced earlier today that he will not be available to play due to a family
situation. So hopefully everything's okay with Kyle and his family. Still a really
good roster and I can't wait. Man, We're not that far away.
We're just in fact, it's this weekend, I mean this Saturday, we'll
see this team in action for the first time two o'clock at Freedom Hall,
so hopefully they get a good turnout. I know ticket sales have been going
really well so far, and I would imagine this week it'll really pick up
because there's a lot of folks who you know, didn't get tickets that early,
and I'm one of them. So I can't wait, really really looking
forward to it. All right. Also, if if you are somebody that
is interested in like the you know, the apparel deals and all that.
Indiana has signed a new deal with Adidas which will keep them with the three
Stripe Company for the next ten years. And we don't have enough time to
really get into it, but I think this deal specifically, when you look
at there's not as much money up front, and it's more loaded on the
back end, and overall, I believe it is I'll have to get to
the specifics before we discussed it, but I think you're going to start to
see you're going to start to see these deals probably not be as lucrative.
It maybe be for a little longer period of time. And you know,
with Louisville, I bring it up to say, I think Louisville may end
up next time around probably not getting what they got the first go around with
Adidas. And you know, I guess I shouldn't say the first time,
but the last time they signed that extension, which was I believe around twenty
seventeen, And that's why they make more money from their apparel provider than any
others, because they got a phenomenal deal and Nike's not going to give you
anything close to what Adidas gave you. So people who want to see Louisville
no longer wear Adidas and wear Nike. I mean, I just that wouldn't
make any sense at all because money has always been super important for you know,
in every aspect of life really, but money in college athletics. There's
going to be so much more money needed because these schools are going to probably
end up having to pay the athletes now. Right, So even if you
feel like there may be a benefit here, or there about being with Nike
and not Adidas and it's just a few million dollars different. What I'm trying
to say is that now's not the time to where you can just you know,
who cares it's a few million dollars, every penny seemingly going to count.
Because if you want to compete and you want to win at the highest
level of college athletics, if you're not pumping in a bunch of money to
pay these players self, not just through an IL, I don't see how
you're gonna be able to succeed. Also, lastly, one of the names
we talked about last Friday, this I mean Darryl Peterson, is believed to
be, you know, a guy who could end up being the number one
player in the I think it is in the Is he twenty twenty six?
Let me see here, Yeah, Darryl Darren Peterson. I just sam I'm
sorry he is. He's a five star, He's an Adidas kid. We
talked about Louisville already having you know, some level of a relationship with him,
and they're trying to get him for a visit. He has Louisville in
his list of six so so far there at least in the mix. And
we're getting way ahead of ourselves here because Pat Kelsey hadn't coached a game yet.
But man, if they could establish a little bit of momentum early on,
have a solid season, make the tournament, maybe find themselves in the
second weekend, you know, he could really utilize that type of season to
start not only killing it in the portal like he already has been, but
getting really good high school recruits. And this kid, you know, if
the hype is even close to legit, this sounds like somebody that would be
one of those freshmen that you know will make an impact as soon as they
get to college, regardless of the portal and regardless of older players you know,
sticking around in college basketball for a longer amount of time. So remember
that name, Darren Peterson. He's a special player, and it could be
you know, competition is going to be tough, but it could be maybe
the first big recruit Pat Kelsey lands from the high school ranks. All right,
quick break, Well, so no, it's gonna be a long break.
In fact, it's gonna be a twenty one hour break and then we're
back at it. So you can hang out if you'd like, if you
want to go do something else, I totally understand. But we'll be back
here at three o'clock tomorrow, and I hope you'll be with us right here
on Sports Talk seven ninety