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and we're gonna have some fun today. But I do need to let you
know there's gonna be potentially a brief moment during the show. We're all have
to be unprofessional. I'm gonna have to take a call. It won't take
but maybe thirty seconds, but like, I can't not take the call of
this answers. And it's not because you know, I'm awaiting like big special
news. It happened. The air conditioning in my home is not working.
So you guys know who I rely on my friends at DFH, and yesterday
reached out to him, told him, Hey, kind of think it's a
false alarm. We'll kind of see what's happening, and then sure enough,
the thing keeps freezing up. Have you ever had that happen? John,
I know you're somewhat of a new homeowner, but we had some acy issues.
I guess it was not last year, but the year before and it
was something similar. Yeah, so the freeze, it's not dead, like,
it's not like it's not working at all, but it's just not working
efficiently and it happens. I don't really know what call this is it.
I've heard different theories, but we're not in an emergency situation. But I
still need to get a looked at it. So I guess they're busy,
you know, as you could expect because this is the time of the year,
especially yesterday and the day before where people are turning on the ac cranking
it up because it's you know, disgusting outside with this humidity, especially when
he gets to be around ninety degrees. So they're going to be coming out
at some point, and they told me they would give me a call about
thirty minutes out, and I'm going to have to take the call and you
know, just say okay, and then tell my wife to go home.
She works closer to home, so she'll be the one that goes and you
know, lets him in and lets them take a look and see if they
can get us fixed. But I just feel like if I don't answer,
then they'll just move on to the other people that are needing service. And
I, you know, last night was not fun. And again I felt,
can I say it, I feel like a little bitch. It was
seventy four seventy five in the house never got colder than that, which that's
not like terrible like that some people set there or the set thir a seat
of that. I mean to me, that's hot. What do you think,
John, Yeah, that's hot. But that's I don't want to call
out a specific age group, but there is a specific age group that likes
it that high. Oh yeah, I mean you're talking about the old people.
It is, yeah, the older statesman of the of the Yes,
I mean some of them probably, you know, not because of means,
but just because things were different. Like it wasn't that common for every home
to have an AC and it many many, many many years ago. So
you know, I'm just sitting around, just couldn't get comfortable because I was
not. I couldn't cool off. I thought about, you know, taking
a shower. That made it even worse, you know, so yeah,
I thought about doing that too, but you know, so I need to
get it fixed. And they're probably gonna call me at some point, and
when they do, I'll just say hello, and you know, I don't
think we're gonna make it content, but I'll probably have John do a little
tap dancing or something like that. And honestly, the call may take no
less than thirty seconds, so you know, but the phone's in front of
me and the ringer is off, so you won't have any you know,
replication. It'll just happen. Yeah, well, yeah, there won't be.
It's not like you're gonna hear it ring so but I you know,
probably should have told John that ahead of time. It may happen during a
commercial break, and that would be perfect, and that may end up being
what happens. But yeah, I need I need a c I need it
badly, all right, So let's just start with some big news. And
I think it's safe to say it's big news, right. I know.
Over the years, there are some fans, meaning that have had the approach,
well, visits don't matter, who cares, you know, you got
to get the player. And then some have always had the view, well,
hey, I'll worry about it when they get on campus, which you
know, if you're doing that, if you're if you're somebody that's old school,
that doesn't care about recruiting, doesn't care about the portal, and you're
just, you know, gonna wait till you see these guys in the red
white scrimmage. That's cool. Do your thing, do you. Everybody has
their own way of, you know, being a fan, has their own
preferences. But given the fact that there are three or thirteen new players already
there could be a potential fourteenth, you're gonna have a lot of work to
do. Like, it's gonna be a little bit of a of a you
know, a tough task, I think, to just get acclimated with these
guys, you know, right around October when things get rolling. So and
I know a lot of fans, especially those that listen to shows like this,
are probably familiar with just about every one of these guys. So it's
just a visit, but it's happening. Coleman Hawkins is visiting Louisville this weekend.
That was reported by on three Sports, And I mean, I let's
go back to last week once it was actually let's do this as soon as
louisvilleand of the thirteenth player, and Coleman Hawkins had, you know, previously
taken his name out of the NBA draft. I just assume, well,
there's no, like, there's no, it's not possible because you know,
Louisville already has thirteen scholarships and you know you don't have any room. And
then I got when that you know, they still have some way of working
it out to where they can add more players. And then it gets into
an IL and I don't know the arrangement and we'll we'll never know those specifics
of like what each player on this team is to receive through INNIL and really
it's not our business. We're not entitled to know. But given that you
had to go get thirteen players, and obviously some of these players had a
lot of options, and I imagine INNIL was a big factor in their decision.
You know, I wouldn't have been shocked if they are sort of low
on funds, but that's not the case. I don't know. I don't
I'll put it this way. I don't believe what's out there from some that
Louisville is willing to pay him two million dollars to come here. I don't
know that to be true or false. I just have a hard time believing
it. But if in fact they do have that money and that's what they
want to pay him, I don't care. You know, that's a conversation
that's happened from time to time since INIL became a thing, Fans sort of
debating should the school or I guess not the school, but should the collective
spend this amount of money or that amount of money on this player who's you
know, a top tier guy, or this guy who maybe isn't worth Like,
at the end of the day, it's not our money. Why do
we care if they can make it work. Who cares, you know what
I mean, like, don't, I don't. It's not that I mean,
I genuinely have zero opinion on what they do with that money if they
have it, because again it's it's it's it's not my money. And at
this point, I mean, I would imagine you do have some funds left
over. And he's the kind of player, meaning Coleman Hawkins that if you
need to do, if you needed to do another round of fundraising, rather
it be hitting up Rick Keeber or something like that. And I don't mean
to I shouldn't mention just one guy specifically. He's he's not the only one
that helps out, but obviously he's the one who you know publicly is very
invested in making this successful. The PAQ Helcierra. He's the one who put
up a million dollars for the five Law two Circle to get a match and
they did that. So he's going to visit. I don't believe there's any
other visits scheduled from what I'm from, you know, from the report that
I read earlier. Maybe that changes, But again, as we discussed yesterday
towards the end of the show, I still never felt like you know,
I didn't want to get my hopes up just yet, and I don't know
if my hopes are up now, but this has made it real where he
is in fact going to visit, and Louisville would not bring him in to
host him on a big visit if in fact they didn't have the ability to
take him, meaning put him on scholarship or pay him within IL. So
at this point, I guess it just comes down to does he want to
come to Louisville. And he really does fit very well with the way Pat
Kelsey likes to play, and I don't think this is the kind of addition
that you'd worry about. Okay, somebody's role is diminished because you've brought this
guy in. I mean, clearly it gets a little more crowded any time
you had any player, but this would be huge. And I don't mean
to regurgitate and recycle and say the same things you've probably already heard me say,
because I know I said it a couple of times yesterday, but my
thoughts haven't changed. It's now just real he's going to visit, and I
think Louisville has a real chance of landing him. But this is the kind
of edition that would take your roster that already looks pretty impressive on paper.
I mean, fans have every right to be excited and expect this to be
a tournament caliber team. I don't think that's unfair. I don't think that's
putting too much on Pat Kelsey. In fact, I'm sure he'd be bothered
if fans didn't have some real expectation this year, in year one. But
outsiders, right, those that are objective that cover college basketball, the talking
heads, if you will, like right now, I think they look at
Louisville and feel pretty good about them. Not to say they're gonna make some
deep run. And nobody's throwing out big, crazy expectations like a deep run
in the tournament. But given what we know, it's all brand new,
thirteen new players. Most of these guys, in fact, all of them
but two have never played together. I guess four because you throw in Khalifa
and Waterman at BYU. But still, like you, no nobody has a
clue how it's gonna work out, because again this is the ultimate unknown with
this type of scenario, a brand new coach and thirteen new players. But
as far as the pieces you've added, I think those that again cover the
sport that we criticize when they say something bad about our team. We gas
them up when they like our team, but regardless, we pay attention to
what they say. Those are the people I'm referring to. They I think
would tell you Louisville fans have every right to feel good about where they are
and probably have a you know, a solid debut season for Pat Kelsey.
That is my thoughts, as is you add Coleman Hawkins. I think it
turns into where just about everybody would look at Louisville as a preseason top twenty
five team. Some already do. We talked about Goodman having them in at
twenty five. I don't think that that's crazy. But I also am well
aware that Jeff Goodman has a close relationship with Pat Kelsey and might have just
been, you know, throw throwing his buddy a bone. They're giving him
a little love. But I hope they can make it work. I really
do. I mean, I don't think that we have to worry as much
about like, for example, Terrence Edwards Junior sun Belt Player of the Year
Sunbelt. You know that's not a big time league, but I think we've
seen in recent years there are dudes who can go from that level and step
up to a, you know, a higher level and be really good.
I mean Dalton Connect maybe the first college player taking to the NBA Draft.
I mean where did he play, like something Colorado? You can tell you
what conference they're in, Yeah, Northern Colorado. So I mean it's it's
happened each and every year, and it's not even just to that level.
I mean, he was an All American. But there are players who come
from mid major or maybe low major that end up having some real success and
maybe not being All Conference players, but they clearly provide value and fill a
specific role that coaches are looking for. So what I'm trying to say is
that I'm not worried about Terrence Edward Junior coming from the Sun Belt. I'm
not worried about Trejore coming from the WCC. I'm not, but there is
something to be said about bringing in a guy who, you know, night
in and night out, was impressive, put up good numbers, again,
a good player, and he played in a league that is, you know,
very competitive, the Big Ten. You know, they still haven't won
a national championship in a long long time, and it seems like more often
than not we get to the end of the sea in the tournament and feel
like, yeah, here we go. The Big Ten got the benefit of
the doubt again and they didn't come through. But it's still a good league,
right, I mean, I don't think anybody would say that that league
doesn't have a bunch of good teams. So the fact that Coleman Hawkins was
a very good player at six ten, two hundred pounds in the Big Ten
thirteen all Big Ten average twelve point six boards, two and a half assists.
Really good defensive player too, That's something I wasn't aware of, but
average just under two steals a game and over you know, at least one
block a game. And what really makes him I think a good you know,
I mean, what makes him fit. I think with Pat Kelsey is
because those are all good numbers at six ten, two hundred pounds, super
efficient and effective when it comes to just those stats. But he also,
you know, shoots at thirty eight percent from three, and that's that's a
guy who get you know, you got to play teams differently when they've got
a six to ten guy that can play on the perimeter, run the floor,
and knockdown shots. So I'm already super excited about the early return here
with Pat Kelce. But this would be a monumental land and I'm trying.
I'm gonna try to balance it without making it sound because the way I am
so excited about potentially landing this caliber of a player in the portal, it's
gonna make it sound as if they don't get him, then you know,
oh crap, were screwed. And I don't want it to sound that way,
because again, I still think you could be a good team, tournament
team, maybe even you find your way in the top twenty five throughout the
year here and there with the current thirteen players you have now. But this
would be I mean, you would just give you another really good weapon,
a talented player. Now. I don't think Louisville fans care, but I
do want to play a clip for you guys coming up a little bit later
on from Sam Vassini, who covers the NBA Draft, used to cover college
hoops as well. I think he still works for the Athletic but on his
podcast he talked about Colemanhawkins, and I thought he did a really good job
of sort of describing the Cole Hawkins brand. He did a much better job
than I did when I tried to yesterday, because I don't think he comes
off as like a you know, an immature tird but he certainly likes to
troll people and have, you know, have fun. I think he gets
amusement out of that, and who am I to judge for that. I
do the same thing. But I again like the Colemanhawkins experience is one that
I feel as if he's on your team, you love him, he's your
guy. If not, you know, you maybe find him to be unlikable.
And I think that's probably what he's going for. So it's about forty
five seconds. We'll play it for you guys coming up here a little bit
later on. But I just thought it was a good you know, because
there are some who see him trolling fan bases on Twitter, and I don't
see Louisville fan saying, hey, we need to not go get this guy.
But I think it's had some people kind of uneasy. Do we want
to go all in and you know, show this dude a ton of love
on social media, you know, in hopes he'll come here or we worried
that he may, you know, start trolling us and messing with us and
sending like fake signals. Well, I don't think you have to worry about
that now because clearly the fact that he's visiting, and by the way,
this is his only visit since he's been in the portal, I don't think
he planned on coming back to college and that was the best option for him.
And again that that goes back to the clip that I'll that I'll play
for you guys a little bit later on from Samvasini, because it tells you
why NBA teams sort of decided to pass on him and urge him to go
back to school. So big news, no doubt, and now we wait
again. He'll be here this weekend. That's the report from on three Sports.
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schedule, and this is gonna be awesome. I mean, it'd be really
awesome if you know Louisville was able to make it there. I mean,
heck if you're and this is what this is why expansion is good for fans
like us. We're not consistently flirting with the college football Playoff when it's at
four teams. Certainly weren't when it was at two teams. But now that
it's at twelve and it'll likely go to fourteen two, like you can realistically
see that happening. It may never happen, right, it may be still
a long shot, but Louisville Kentucky and heck even Indiana if you want to
throw in their random weird COVID year, Those are se You know, you've
all had seasons in recent years in the last decade that if the playoff was
at fourteen or twelve, I should say at twelve, you might've been just
on the outside looking in, but you'd have been you'd have been in the
running, right. It would have been a ride for you as a fan
to follow along all throughout the year, to think, like, man,
can we sneak in? Can we do it? And that is why I
used to think expansion was so stupid. The idea of going from four to
eight or to twelve was just dumb because, let's be real, more often
than not, when you get to the end, you know who's gonna win
it, it's gonna be one of two teams, or sometimes you just know
it's gonna be one team. So expansion is not good for the sport because
it's going to lead to a real big change in parody. I still think
the teams that are winning titles in the last twenty five years are probably still
going to be the teams winning titles for the next twenty five years. That's
just what college football has shown us, however, or there's now more inclusion,
right just making it to the College Football Playoff, even if you get
your ass kicked in the first game, that still is going to have some
real value. There's currency there when it comes to your program and its accomplishments.
It's like a final four in basketball, and we all know, especially
around here, those matter. So it's exciting. I don't know, you
know how long it's going to take or if any of these schools will ever
get in, but just to know that you can, like I've always loved
college football, and I've always, i guess been able to easily kind of
just distract myself from the fact that really it's a different world for everybody else
outside of that elite tier. And that elite tier is small, for being
honest with you, So it's probably still going to remain small as far as
far as those that win national championships. But you know, to just have
it be like you could have, you know, non ten win seasons depending
on who you are, and know that no matter what, like you know,
we will have a good year. Maybe we'll get in New Year's six,
maybe we're going to New year six Bowl, but like we're not talking
playoff. Well now you can at least throw that out there and it may
not happen, but I think that's going to make the regular season ride a
lot more fun for many fan bases out there. So again, we'll lay
out the actual schedule. It's just crazy to see there's gonna be home games.
I think that's awesome. Also, some of the things we'll get into
here today. I don't know how much you guys care about the recent NBA
deal that is in the you know, TNT Turner. They're losing the NBA
and it's going to go to NBC, so it's just going to be NBC
in ESPN. And I don't want to nerd out too much on like,
you know, the the deal and the arrangement or whatever, but I think
we're about to see like a big shift in not just I'll put it this
way, I think the value that you have as an NBA and NFL or
even you know, college football leagues the vast majority of those out there in
America specifically, when you're watching something that's live, it's sports. You don't
need to watch really anything else live other than that. I mean, so
when you have that value, right, these networks are gonna overpay. Like
if you look at what NBC is gonna pay for the NBA when actually the
NBA's ratings are not climbing, they're dropping, You're gonna think, like,
why would you pay that, Like the league is not you know, it's
not it's not going in the right direction. Well, it's because there's no
like when you have that value where you can know that you're gonna get a
live audience that's watching at that moment, and we're talking millions and millions of
people, Like I think, I think networks will overpay because at the end
of the day, it won't be that hard to monetize because again, who
we are who, Like when it comes to live television, that people will
make sure they're not going to DVR it. They're not going to watch it
later. Maybe some will, but like you want to watch it live.
Who is live sports competing with who? What other content out there? What
other live television audience is there? I mean, that's that's remotely large.
I'm sure some people still watch. I mean I look occasionally, you know,
I've got live TV on watching like the news. But that's where sports
has really taken over when it comes to television because when it comes to live,
meaning you're sitting down in front of your TV at that time, like
nobody. I mean, what was the less time you watched something live,
John, Like you made sure that you were going to be in front of
your TV because it started at this time and it was a big deal.
Like it's probably sports, right, I mean you mentioned it's always sports and
very rarely the news, and that's usually whenever there's severe weather. Yeah.
Yeah, So you know, I'm fascinated with that, with with you know,
I'm also fascinated to see that like the Bally Sports that's been sold like
three or four times in the last ten years. I believe it is used
to be the Fox Sports Regionals. Then it became like Bally Sports and Sinclair
Broadcasting I think sold it. So all those you know, the regional sports
channels, the RSNS right like that, we sometimes still have to watch games
on FanDuel apparently is about to buy that, meaning FanDuel TV, which by
the way, is on your like YouTube TV if you have it. Like
think about that. We've already been you know, the sports world has already
been completely flipped upside down when it comes to sports betting. Ten years ago,
the thought of anybody mentioning it in live sports would be you know,
fired. Now it's everywhere, but imagine watching your team play and knowing you
have to go to a sports books network to watch it. Like it's not
a surprise. But it's just crazy to think about somebody throwing that out there
as an idea or a potential thing to happen, not even ten years ago,
six seven years ago. It's crazy. So again, we're loaded today.
Stick with us. We'll have some fun. At least I hope we
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it sounds like we now know the uh, the first actual game we're going
to get to see Pat Kelsey coach this team. So according to one of
the I guess i'll, you know, make sure I can give some some
proper credit here. This is a report from looks like Rocko Miller, who
works for bracketeer dot org, which is a college basketball outlet. He's reporting
that Louisville season opener will be on Monday, November fourth against Morehead State.
This will be the first time that these two have played since. Of course,
what happened in twenty eleven when Louisville was upset in the tournament and that
sucked. I doubt there's much revenge, you know, on the mine from
I mean, got to keep in mind that was thirteen years ago, so
some of these players were, you know, if you're like an incoming freshman,
you know, Kahani Ruths, I mean he was probably five, yeah,
five years old or something like that. So it does give me a
little PTSD though, to be honest with you, like when I just when
I saw that report, I'm like, Okay, well, I don't know,
like that just makes me kind of feel uneasy. It'll have no impact
like what happened in twenty eleven in Denver. Will have no impact on that
game at all, but it just kind of makes me a little squeamish.
I mean, that was that was brutal, and it was it was talked
about all throughout the week about a big upset to watch. And Louisville,
if you remember, had a really not a great year. Let me let
me I'm gonna look it up because now now I'm curious because they ended up
making the tournament. I think it was like a four seed. And that
was back when the Big East was really really good and you could have like
not a great record in your league, but still you know, end up
with a pretty good seed because you know, the league was loaded. Yeah,
Louisville that in that season they were twenty five and ten, twelve and
six and ended up getting a four seed. Yeah, they lost in Moreheady.
It was the thirteen seed and that that was a fun ride. That's
such an easily forgotten season because of what happened in the tournament. But man,
that ride was fun. And let me tell you why, because that
was the year that Rick Patino called it the Bridge year. I think Rick
that year literally thought he was going to have a really tough time, like
winning at a high level, right they you know, they they had just
lost a good you know that was they lost Tomato, Jerry Smith, Edgar
Sosa, you know, and those guys, to be honest with you,
were were you know, impactful players. So like that era. Right in
the year before that, they barely made the tournament, but that sort of
ended that era that had you again, these guys were long gone. But
like the t will Earl Clark, Andre McGee, I mean, even Derek
Character, I mean David Like, there was a run from two two thousand
and I guess it was two thousand and eight because two thousand and five they
made a final four. Two thousand and six they were really bad in their
first year in the Big East, didn't make the tournament. Think they actually
had a losing record, and then two thousand and seven they were pretty good,
made the tournament and lost in I think the second Yeah, they lost
in the second round to Billy Gillespie, Texas A and M. And then
after that it was Elite eight, Elite eight, and then yeah, back
to back Elite eights, and then things kind of started to dip. And
I remember that year they were opening the Ump Center and Rick said bridge here
and everybody was thinking, Okay, this guy is on the back end like
this. You know, he he got us to a final four, but
it's probably not going to be sustainable. And he got to keep in mind
Kala just got the town and he was, you know, winning at a
high level. So yeah, that was a fun year because they ended up
being pretty good. I mean they finished twelve and six in a really really
good Big East. A Big East team by the way, that when all
said and done, had seven teams ranked in the top twenty two. And
it was because they weren't like the unexpected rides are always a lot of fun,
and that there was no ride in the tournament. But that season they
were good. It was whatever we first Chris Smith showed up as a transfer
from from Manhattan, and people remember that story. He was really good friends
with Smarto Samuels in high school. They played together, and uh, he
played at Manhattan as a transfer. And once the team like got there and
uh, you know, everybody was working out. I don't know if it
was like summer workouts, but like everybody on the team had a ride for
the summer. And I remember hearing the story. I think Rick told the
story actually that he asked Steve Massiello, who's that it was? Chris Smith,
and I guess mass had to tell him, yeah, you don't remember,
like he was gonna walk He's gonna pay his way, He's a walk
on. It's j R. Smith's brother. And Tina was like, no
clue, had no clue, didn't remember anything about it. But turns out
that you know it was. I think that's what got Samato to stay a
a second year because smart as last year, well, I don't know,
I can't remember specifically. There was a tie and I think either was Smarto
or Earl Clark. That led to Chris Smith wanted to come player, but
he was gonna be a walk on. But in the end he started that
year was a pretty good player. That was when in twenty eleven was when
Peyton was a sophomore and really kind of, you know, emerged. So
that's a fun year. But yeah, nobody remembers that that fun year because
they ended up, you know, losing to Morehead State and prior to that,
I'll have to go back and look, but because of that happening and
what that does to you as a diehard college basketball fan, your team,
anytime your team loses in the tournament. It sucks, especially when it's the
first round, but when you get upset like it's crazy. I now look
at every tournament game louis was played in since then with the clear proof that
I know they can lose, right, I mean, when they played a
sixteen seed, when they were the one seed a couple of years, I
didn't. I didn't have the worry then, but you know what I mean,
like when it happens in that fashion, fourteen, I'm sorry, a
thirteen seed over a four and you and you get sent home like it's It's
made me more anxious than I already was watching any Louisville tournament game. And
it's kind of salt to the wound. Because a coach, the coach that
I committed to play for when I went to Saint Catherine, his name was
Wade O'Connor. And you know, now that I'm older, you know I
still think he was a little much real just I mean, I've had some
tough coaching, but he, I mean, he was just over the top.
You know, things he would say to to not me, but to
other players. Because I didn't play much, I wasn't somebody was really trying
to motivate. You know, I was just around when I got there,
but you know he was. I mean, he was a hard ass and
in a way that I never anticipated. So when I left there and decided
to transfer, he ended up leaving that same offseason, and he ended up
going to Moorhead State, where he worked under Donnie Tendall. And you know,
I wasn't you know, I guess twenty eleven, it was a little
bit. It was still a little bit sensitive to it because I didn't like
playing for the guy and I wanted to transfer, and I did. Well.
Sure enough, he's on that Morehead staff that beats Louisville, and you
know when that happened that night, you know, keep him. I think
Louisvill might have been one of the first games of the day, and then
Kentucky nearly lost, I think to one of the IVY one of the IVY
League teams. But after that, I didn't watch any tournament games that Thursday
or Frauday, and he was whatever date was. I didn't watch because I
was just depressed. I couldn't believe that. I was in disbelief that they
lost that game to Morehead State. So the next day at that time,
you know, we still got a newspaper, and sure enough I pick up
the newspaper and it is Wade O'Connor, my former Saint Catherine coach, who
at the time I wouldn't say I didn't like him, but you know,
it made it worse knowing that he was on the staff that they gave Louisville
that upset, and the front page was him hugging one of the Morehead State
players with his face like right there, I'm like Jesus Christ, this can't
get worse. So, yeah, hopefully Louisville has no trouble. But for
what it's worth, Morehead State has had some good success. I mean they're
coming off of a pretty good year. I mean, they made the tournament.
Someple thought they were gonna was it Illinois who they played in the first
round, that thinks, So, yeah, they led for a little while.
Yeah, they won twenty six games last year, which of course,
you know, they won the OBC title as well, And yeah, they
they played Illinois competitively till towards the end. Now they have a totally different
I mean president President Spradland turned that spectacular season into the James Madison job.
They also lost their OBC Player of the Year, so they're rebuilding and they
elevated as a stafford to be the head coach, so maybe they maybe they
won't be, you know, good for that level. But I kind of
think, no matter what the sick, no matter what the circumstance is,
if you play morehead stayed at any point, fans who you know, remember
and experience that heartbreaking upset are gonna maybe for a millisecond you'll think like,
oh, like, please don't do this. They almost beat Indiana last year
too, only lost by one. Yeah, that was and they were if
I remember correctly, weren't they kicking their ass at the beginning of that game?
I don't remember, they were like killing them. It was. That
was one of those Woodson's because it was a Friday and I watched and I
bet on Indiana and I'm like, geez, what are you guys doing.
Woodson hasn't had a bad loss to a team like that yet, but he's
had a lot of really close games against those types of teams, which always
worries you a little bit. But then again, you've had other coaches who
lost to those kind of teams. Archie Tom Crean both of them did.
Yeah, so Morehead State was up eleven at halftime in that game and end
I'm losing by just one. So yeah, that'll be the first chance to
see That'll be the first chance to see Pat Kelsey in action. I mean,
you know, in a real game. All right, it's happening,
John, That's right, it is so right. Now I'm tap dancing for
probably a total of I don't know, thirty seconds or so. Nick is
answering a phone call. He's talking to his friends at DFH for those of
you who may or may not be with us right or have been with us
since the beginning of the show. He talked yesterday as well about how his
air conditioners been going out, and now he's worried about being a whiny little
bitch as we as we mentioned, uh for having to sleep when it's seventy
four, seventy five, seventy six degrees in the south, which I wouldn't
be fond of either. So he's currently taking that call, and you know,
it looks like he's boun to head back to his We're good, he's
good. I'm done tab dance. Thank you for tab dancing there? Yeah,
I uh, I got to get the AC fixed. And uh,
I knew if I didn't take the call, then they may just move on
to other people who I'm sure have AC issues because it happens. And also
everybody's you know, everybody's in line to have DFH come out because that's that's
who you want to trust when it comes to an EHVAC needs. So there
we go. Thank you for doing that, John, I appreciate it really
putting you on the spot there, It was all right. I just talked
about what you were probably doing. Yeah, I did hear, I did
hear. The you know, the real thing is I'm a whiny bitch when
it comes to being hot. I know you referenced, you know that,
and we need to we need to no longer have you know, whiny nick.
And by getting the AC fixed in my home, that'll that'll, you
know, that'll make it better. And really it's my wife who you know
probably needs it fixed more than anything, not because she's as uncomfortable as me.
She just tried. She's tired of me wanting like, you know,
like a whiny little bitch. Anyways, we'll get to our second break here,
we'll come back on the other side. Keep it rolling along. Usually
our segments are pretty short towards the end of the hour, which this will
be no different. But I'm convinced that John Rostein, who I think a
lot of people listening will know who that is, the college basketball nerd.
He'd probably call himself that. So it's not like I'm picking on him.
He's a madman and I've got evidence. Right. We've talked about it over
the years, things that people do that make them seem as if they might
be low key psychopathic, some psychopathic behavior. Rostein is an So we'll get
to that and a lot more, keep it right here on Sports Talk seven
ninety. So my psychopathic behavior is enjoying cold weather and not liking hot weather.
There's some other things too. I'm sure I remember John's because it it's
easy to remember. It is the no condiments kind of thing, right,
You're dressing, yeah, no dressing. Yeah, I mean like pet pancakes
and waffles with no syrup, salad with no dressing. That is how if
he's going to eat those things, that's how he prefers them. And I
just I don't know anybody else like that, but hey, everybody's different.
I don't think it's like psychopathic behavior to seek out a movie and not watch
it all the way through, just like fast forward to the end and watch
like a segment of it. Like I can't relate, but like that's you
know, I think more than anything, you're just managing your time. I
haven't done it in a while, but the most recent time I did that
talked about on the show was when there was that movie called Don't Look Up.
Yeah Netflix. Yeah, I was interested in it, didn't want to
watch the whole thing, not interested enough the synopsis, and then watch the
last maybe fifteen minutes of it. I think we all have behaviors that others
would not be able to understand and may potentially think that, you know,
you could be a psychopath. You know, I've said this before, and
you know I'm not being that serious, although still kind of am Those that
sit by each other that are couples at restaurants, like I just, you
know, I don't get it. I think it's very very odd. You
know, if it's just two people and you're in a booth, why are
you sitting next to each other? Like I just think that's it is weird,
Hey do you But I just I don't get that at all. But
John Rostein, I don't know much about like him personally, but he's a
college basketball robot, and I think that's the brand he's wanting to be out
there. And I've noticed it here and there, like if something when it
comes to the sports world, because I think a lot of people that are
very active and constant on Twitter, not all of them, but a big
segment of that of that audience is for sports. It's how people keep up
with what's going on in sports. So let's say it's like Super Bowl Sunday
or maybe you know, heck, when we find out that there's a global
pandemic going on, or there's a new president elected, like whenever there's like
a big story that is really leading the discussion everywhere, not just Twitter,
Rostein will go out of his way to let people know he's not thinking about
any of that. He's focused on who just scheduled a non conference matchup in
twenty thirty seven? Like that's his brand. But I want to give Craig
Meyer, who does some coverage of the Big Ten and SEC for USA Today,
who went through and I'll read this tweet, says after he posted about
a Stanford Merrimack game right after the Trump verdict. I looked back at John
Rostein's history of tweeting college basketball minutia during important breaking news events for today's newsletter.
Here are some gems that he found Election night of twenty sixteen. We
all know that was a pretty big deal, right that was Hillary and Trump?
Well, yeah, yeah, that night. Juco guard Corinthian Raimie has
committed to Nickels State per source. This was a little bit earlier in the
evening seven forty five Penn State Josh Reeves expected to miss the first three games
of this sixteen seventeen season due to a lower leg injury. Per release.
What else do we have here? I'd love to see some of the replies
to these tweets, but they're funny. Roe v. Wade that was a
big deal. It was overturned in June of twenty twenty two. That morning,
eleven am, right around the time that became public. You know the
story. And by the way, at that point, everybody's waiting and knowing
it. We're about to figure out what happens. Here, he tweets out
the twenty twenty three national title odds. DeMar Hamlin collapses during Monday Night football.
We thought a man had died on the field during an NFL game.
Huge story right all over the world, all over the planet. Rostein as
it looks as if he's dead tweets out this blown away with Paul McKay's performance
tonight at Macky Arena sixteen points, eight rebound, six assists, made every
big shot an incredible display. Also, who needs Bowl games? Tweeted that
out on January the second, which again was the same evening that mar Hamlin
we thought was gonna you know, thought he died, And there's more in
the newsletter if you want to check it out. But like that is that's
that's not coincidence, Like that's like, why does he want that to be
his brand? I mean he has, he's going he's living by it,
by a tea or two. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean like when
when everybody, or at least you know, a huge percentage of those on
the platform are discussing something that is, you know, a big story,
he can't help himself. He's then triggered to just let people know, hey,
you know this team is going to do a home and home with that
team in five years. Just everybody, you know, it's it's it's it
doesn't bother me, but it's it's strategic clearly. But I don't know what
the payoff is, you know what I mean, like what you know,
what would be like what does he get out of that? I feel,
like I mentioned earlier, I bet some of the people who reply to his
tweets during those times are pretty funny, like you're being insensitive, Yeah,
you shouldn't be tweeting this at this time. I mean, he's like a
bot. He has a he has a college basketball podcast that he does year
round, I think once a week. It's called College Hoops Today. And
I've never listened to it when it didn't have either Chris Mack or Kenny Payne
on there. I don't know if he's ever had Rick on there, but
uh, you know he is. He's very well connected, trust me,
he breaks news and he's he's in the know. But like if you listen
to him on that podcast, and I only have just just because again,
you know, I wanted to hear what the coaches that I cared about had
to say, it's almost like he is a robot, Like he's a color
Like it's you know, it's it's I'm fascinated by this guy. I think
he might actually be an AI plant. I think he may be artificial intelligence,
and he was just early development, early stages of that. Yeah,
Like if you found out that was to be true next week, nobody'd be
shocked, right, No, I'd be shocked. If you suffer from low
T and you don't do something about it, I'd be shocked. I'd be
appalled. And if in fact you have low T and you know, reach
out to my friends at the Lotiverle Men's Clinic. They can help you.
And you may not know you have low T. You may not even know
what low TA is. And I can't explain it to you as good as
doctor Wood can over at the Louisville Men's Clinic. So if you are lethargic,
you feel like you've lost your edge a little bit. You know,
you're getting a little bit older. You don't have to be old as if
you know old and gray and you know in your seventies, But as you
get older, the natural testosterone that your body develops decreases over time, and
that can make it to where you know, you start to age. And
I don't mean gray hair, I mean again, like your body, your
your muscle, mass that kind of stuff. So that was me. I
didn't really understand why I was putting in the same amount of work in the
gym watching what I was eating. In fact, sometimes I would even really
buckle down and make sure I had a good week eating and really went above
and beyond in the gym, and yet I just couldn't get any payoff.
And sure enough, over time I realized it could be that my testosterone levels
is not where it needs to be, and that's exactly what it was.
I went and saw doctor Wood, got my levels checked and I've been on
testoster on treatment for the last few months and it's been a game changer for
me. So I know a lot of men are tough and they don't want
to lean on anybody for any help because they're tough, they're macho, they're
badasses. Well, if that sleep when it's seventy five degrees in their house,
if that's you, then props to you. But like you know,
you could probably be even feeling better with my friends at the Louis of Men's
Clinic. Give me a call if I was to four four four four thousand
Louis of Men's Clinic dot com. That is the website. All right,
one hour in the books, we got two more to ghost. Stick around
right here on Sports Talk seven ninety