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day. Now here's Nick coffee. All right, let's get it started here
hour number three on a beautiful Monday afternoon. Hopefully you folks had yourself as
a good weekend, busy weekend here in Louisville. Spring game on Friday.
Looked like they had a great crowd out there, which I love that.
Maybe just because things have kind of calmed down a little bit, we're not
as a fan base at each other's next as much as we were previously.
But there was nobody at least that I saw, you know, talking about
the crowd, attendants trying to you know, what's wrong with everybody. And
I did say one point, I'll never talk, you know, crowds again
because I've always always just had a difficult time understanding why people. You know,
if you go to the game and we all want there to be great
crowds, great atmosphere, it's good for everybody involved. But like if you're
at the game and you notice some people aren't there, like you know,
there's five empty seats you know, to in the section to your right,
like letting that impact your excitement. It just I don't get that. And
the conversation oftentimes about attendance is about people not an attendance rather than focusing on
those that are an attendance. But you know, I hate the attendance conversations
and I'm hopeful that over time everybody just realizes that things have changed. And
if you've got a big game, you know, like a Notre Dame come
in to town or something like that, or a ranked opponent, maybe a
game where conference a regular season championships on the line, you're going to see
a packed out at at Ellen N. Cardinal Stadium. But like when they
play I don't know, Jacksonville State, whoever it is one of these FCS
teams, it's not going to be nearly as crowded as it would be for
those other games I mentioned. And that doesn't mean anybody did anything wrong.
That's normal. But anyways, I was impressed by the amount of people that
did show up for a you know, not a real game, and there's
not a whole lot to take from a spring game, but it is your
chance to see new players that transferred in And I did share some of my
thoughts from the scrimmage earlier in the show if you guys missed it and it
wasn't as if I had some real groundbreaking analysis. You know, I think
Tyler Shuck looks looks like, you know, looks like a guy that you
could certainly believe had a lot of success when healthy, and he just hasn't
been able to stay healthy throughout his career. And here's to hoping that this
is the year he stays healthy. And if so, I think he could
have a monster season. I mean, he's got a big arms, got
the size, and if Jeb Brown thinks he's good enough to leave the offense,
then that's that's enough. Me Like to see Pierce Clarkson out there second
string reps, I'd say he's gonna be your backup this year. There's a
lot of quarterbacks on the roster too. By the way, there's some belief
that maybe they end up losing one of these scholarship guys to the portal,
just because at this point, you know, if you've not made some movement
on the depth chart, he would make sense for you to leave. And
let's be honest, man, like, there's two dudes on this team that
are probably looking to be third string at best. That were big time recruits.
Brady Allen, who followed Jeff from Purdue. I mean, I think
he looked pretty good in the spring, but still not a guy that I
think you would expect to be starting games for you. Harrison Bailey, who
started his career at Tennessee, was a top ten quarter might have been top
five quarterback out of high school. Goes to UNLV and then ended up at
Louisville last year. So we'll see if they end up losing some guys.
But I thought Tyler shuck, you know, for at spring game. You
know, you can see why Bram has a lot of belief in him,
and really we'll never know, right if he stays healthy, maybe he's a
pretty average quarterback. But you also could see a scenario where if he did
stay healthy, you know, he may have been one of the better quarterbacks
in the Pac twelve, maybe one of the better quarterbacks in the Big twel
last year when he was at Texas Tech. Offensively, I know they want
to add some depth upfront on the offensive line. I think the guys they
have they feel really good about, but you always need depth, especially at
that position and at the receiver spot. I'm just I'm curious who's going to
be like the guy and maybe sometimes you can do it by committee. I
mean, in fact, maybe you can't. And I know you've seen teams
do about committee and not have like a superstar that's just so much better than
everybody else. And last year we had that guy and that was Jamari Thrash
And I don't think you're going to replace him because I think he was that
special, especially when he was healthy. But you know, I just I
wouldn't be shocked if we end up finding out that they're maybe prioritizing another receiver
in the portal here and at running back. We'll get to that in just
a second. But the guys that I did see, and again it's just
a spring game, but I think the Miami transfer who again name continues to
sc me. And this is one of those things where like John doesn't know
who the hell he is. He can't bail me out here. He doesn't
know who the backup running back at Miami last year was, nor should he.
But anyways, the running back room I feel pretty good about. I
mean, i'd say you don't have a lot of guys that have proven to
be you know, really really good, especially at this level. But I
know Isaac Brown the freshman, and you never want to have to rely on
a true freshman at running back. But he's I think he's pretty damn good.
In fact, I think he's a guy that despite being a freshman,
I expect to get some carries this year. I really do. But the
other running back I mentioned that I couldn't think of his name, the Miami
transfer, Donald Cheney. You know, wouldn't be shocked if he's your main
guy this year. I love Kewan Brown, who red shirted last year.
He's a kid from Georgia. They've always felt really good about him. But
the other run and Mary's turner also is a guy that I think you'll see
get a lot of reps who's been here what seems like forever. But the
big addition in the portal in in the h after the season ended was Penny
Boon, the transfer from Toledo and he announced last week that he was transferring
and you know, yeah and yes, you heard that correct. He transferred
to Louisville in January, only then transfer last week. For I'd say the
reason, according to himself, was money. Don't know if he just thought
he'd get more money thought he was worth more than they gave him, took
a deal and felt like it was, you know, not the right deal,
so he wanted more money. Like I don't even know how that works,
Like I've never even once thought about this scenario, but I guarantee you
it happens. And that's like a player that is currently locked into some NIL
arrangement during the season or you know, maybe just during the school year and
the portal's not open yet and they want more money, and they probably ask
for but like I'm sure they just say, you know, I mean,
like I've never even once thought about that, but you know that has to
happen, right John, Like guy's already there being paid, but then they've
you know, they've talked to somebody who's getting this at this school and may
want more money. Like how do you how do you deal with that?
That's that's a lot. I mean, the right way to deal with it
is just you know, oh, surely that's what they're doing for the most
part. Yeah, And this is where this is where there's nobody really to
blame for this. I just think this is the situation that we're in.
And what I mean is coaches can't tell you or not, and are not
supposed to tell you the amount of money right they In fact, I'm not
even really sure what they can tell you. I'm sure they cross that line
because right now there doesn't really there's there's no rules seemingly that that people are
following. So if you go to a coach like during spring practice or maybe
during the season, and you're like, hey, I need to talk to
you any more money like that coach would probably tell you to go home,
like you know one, because he's going to tell you he can't talk about
that. Also, he's probably gonna be bothered that you even thought about that
when you're supposed to be like it's it's probably a reminder to coaches and they
know this, but it's a real direct reminder right in their face that like
this game is, it's not what it once was. The job is different
now. But like if they go to if they go to the collective,
I mean the collective, you know, can't just I mean there has to
be some level of understanding that like, once you are into this deal,
like this is what it is. But even if they have that arrangement,
you know people are because people are gonna try to get more money any chance
they can. But Penny Boone I think made it clear he was leaving because
of money, and I don't know if he didn't have options elsewhere that were
you know, worthwhile to him and when it comes to compensation. But as
soon as he hit the portal there was interest. Obviously he was supposed to
go to Seattle and visit Washington. That visit never happened, and it sounds
like that's over for reasons I don't know. And then the same thing I
think has happened that Old Miss. I don't I think he was gonna visit
Old Miss. I don't think a planned visit has already you know, been
canceled and didn't happen. But it doesn't sound like there's a whole lot there.
So now he's visiting Kentucky today. And then the report from Rivals last
night was that a return to Louisville is still an option. So whatever Jef
Brahm decides to do here, I mean, I'm cool with it because I
trust that he would make the right decision for what makes the most sense for
this team. But I also would not be shocked at all if Jeff Brahms
talked to Penny Boone for the last time. I mean, that makes it
sound as if I have information that makes me believe that. I think any
coach take Jeff rom out of it if this kid transfers out and on his
way out doesn't really handle it the right way. And one of the things
I haven't mentioned enough throughout the show when we've talked about this today is that
aliving a lot of things that have hurt Penny Boone are related to his agent.
I mean his agent, which is is from some you know, management
group or whatever. It sounds like they were behind the leaks, which was
just I mean not just bad information telling people that Louisville was in trouble with
NIL, like they didn't have the money that they that they get that the
recruits I guess were told or the transfers that were told they were going to
get and that's just not true. And either Penny Boone just lied about his
NIL stuff and he wanted to justify like he didn't want to make it look
like it was anything to do with like wanting or worried about having to compete
for the spot. But I just have a hard time seeing that being salvaged
at this point, but then again, you know, he's a talented player,
and if Jeff Brown decided that he's worth bringing back, then I think
we should know that one Penny Boot's pretty good player. But also, you
know, maybe maybe the staff sees sort of the departure in the mismanaging of
it. In my opinion, maybe they would see it as more of a
more of an issue with his agent than him directly. But if it was
me, and again it's not, I would tell him, you know,
have a nice life, and you know, we'll see it in November,
like to say all that, then to visit Kentucky the first visit after you've
decommitted. I just think it's almost impossible to think he'd be back at Louisville.
But again, I guess we'll have to have to wait and see it.
And something that bothers me, and maybe it doesn't happen as often as
I think it does, is especially in football, players transferring and their first
thought is immediately go to the rival school. I feel like it's because that
they don't. The players these days don't see rivalries for what people like us,
and even even older than us, see that kind of stuff as Yeah,
No, you're right, but it is weird to see it happen more
often, at least from my perspective. I think sometimes it's clearly calculated.
I think sometimes it could just be you know, like, for example,
Kentucky is looking for a running back. They actually couldn't get a visitor on
campus that was in the portal. I don't remember who it was, but
they kind of struck out with a guy that they hoped to transfer in it
running back, and then Pitty Boom became available. So maybe, you know,
but to me, there's always going to be someone like, you know,
you know what you're doing, right, Like Kentucky knows they're pursuing one
of Louisville's players. And I think Penny Boone, if he really feels a
certain way about Louisvill, which he certainly indicated that he did with some sense
deleted stuff from his Instagram, then I think he would be probably fueled to
go to Kentucky, right, you know, maybe they've got maybe they've got
money for him. I don't know. All right, let's switch gears to
basketball really quickly here, because a lot of visitors in town over the last
few days, and you know, last week was a great week for Pat
Kelcey throughout all the visitors, I say all the visitors. It wasn't as
if they had thirty players. But you know, when you're trying to build
an entire roster, you know, from so far in the month of April
they've had it looks like, actually Terrence Edwards committed on April the second.
Let's just get rid of him though, just because you know, and by
the way, we're not getting rid of him. He's the best player they've
added at this point. And by the way, he's going to join us
on the show tomorrow at four thirty. But from April twelve to April twenty,
that's eight days they hosted what looks to be thirteen visitors, and four
of them are committed to Louisville. Now two we are already committed prior to
visiting. Those are the guys following Kelsey from Charleston. But Javon Hadley and
Ali Khalifa both committed last week. And let's just stick with the transfer the
transfers before we get back into the Jaden Quainton situation. But a Bubba car
Trey Ore probably not saying that right, sounded pretty good, thank you.
I don't think I was far off. What I gotta do is just when
I when I say it with such a lack of confidence, not only do
I not believe that I'm saying it right, nobody's gonna believe that I'm saying
it right when in fact, I could just get lucky, you know what
I mean, I could get lucky and it could just work out. But
he visited over the weekend, and I've not heard much about you know,
where he may end up. But you know, they got him on campus,
and I've honestly not even heard a whole lot about which schools he's he's
considering. So maybe that means he's he's close to uh, you know,
Pick and Louisville. And I'm not here to tell you he'd be, you
know, this elite player that's going to put Louisville over the top. But
he's I mean, they need I don't want to make it sound like they
need. They they'll take anybody because because they have, you know, such
a desperation to fill the roster. But I mean, you know, I
think if they were to lay it, let's just say Corin Johnson, who
by the way, also is another visitor from this weekend. He's the guard
from Washington. Let's just say those two guys, Johnson and Trey Or they
commit this week. Let's say you get Johnson tomorrow and you get Trey Or
Wednesday. That would be I think you'd have seven scholarship players, So more
than halfway there. I think you'd have an identity at that point. He
could certainly change. Maybe you go out and get totally different types of players
to fill the rest of the roster. But what that would tell me to
me, it's guys that maybe you know, aren't elite at one thing,
but they're pretty good at just about everything. I mean, Terrence Edwards is
a guy that you could expect more to just be your scorer because he's done
that for years at James Madison and even when he came off the bench,
I mean, before he became the Sun Belt Player of the year, Edwards
was the sixth man of the year in that league averaging like I think he
was six man of the year but also was like third in that conference in
scoring when he was like a sophomore maybe junior. So you know, I
think he's a guy that would probably be your best player right now. And
you know, Rain Smith. You know, maybe he's not really good at
anything other than shooting, but technically you need that, and he's really good
at shooting. James Scott is your big that's still a little still a little
raw, but man, he's a rim runner and you throw it up near
the rim, He's going to go get it and dunk it. He can
block shots too. You know, Hadley I think is the jack of all
trades, a guy that literally does just about everything. I mean, his
stat line was just efficient at Colorado. And then Cleef is not expected to
play, but you know, Trailer, I think you put him in that
same category with Hadley. He's a little bit more of a post presence in
that regard and maybe even more of a stat stuff for considering he had three
triple doubles last year at Long Beach State, and then Korin Johnson is just
a two guard, a guy that you know, I won't claim to know
a whole lot about him as far as his style of play, but you
know, I know last year at Washington he came off the bench and averaged
about twelve points a game in roughly twenty four minutes per game. So you
know, six' two combo guard said, I just think that would be
a roster that doesn't look like, Wow, this team's about to be great.
But this day at age, man like you can win a lot,
you can win at a high level with those caliber players. It really all
comes down to how it fits together. And that's something you really don't know.
I mean, I think coaches will tell you they hope it all works,
but you know, if it's brand new, you don't know till you
know. If you bring back your entire team like Louisville, did you know,
like when Louisville brought back Jordan Warre, Dwayne Sutton, all those guys,
and the only added piece in that twenty twenty team was fresh Kimball.
At that point, you know, you knew who you were as a team,
like you knew what you had. That's a different world now. I
mean, so Eric Muslim at Arkansas last year a great example. Like people
could make fun of him for being bad this past year there and he was,
but he landed players from the portal that everybody wanted. Everybody, most
of them, I should say, like not. I mean, Ellis was
one of them, and he wasn't wanted by everybody. But if you remember
Ellllis, I mean Indiana wanted him, Miami wanted him. I mean,
I don't know if it was the same offer that he got at Arkansas.
But my point is this, like in the pooral world, you really just
don't know how any of it's all going to fit and work together. But
those are caliber players that their numbers aren't going to be crazy, right,
They're not going to look like, oh man, this guy's he's going to
put up thirty at night. But they're solid, they're experienced. And Pat
Kelsey, you know, we're all still this is all nw to everybody,
but Pat Kelsey two years ago had a really really good team at Charleston that
I believe, you know, I don't know if it would have we never
we never found out, but I mean they were close to being considered for
a team that would actually still make the tournament even if they did not win
their league because they had just a gaudy record. Well, Pat lost some
guys from that team that ended up transferring elsewhere, and you know they ended
up being pretty good players at a higher level. Well, he went out
and had to go get more players, and he did it. So he
replaced some of his better players we lost to the portal at Charleston. He
went out, replaced him with guys from the portal, and sure enough they
won their league once again, made the NAA Tournament. So, you know,
every coach is still adjusting to this new world in college basketball. But
you know, so far Pat has Pat has I think shown that he can.
He can. You know, to me, there's a little bit of
Bram in him in regards to just understanding, you know, there's nothing like
we can do about it. It's never gonna change as far as you know
in il the portal and all that. So let's just embrace it like no
other and thrive. And Bram has done that with the transfer portal. Anytime
he's asked about it, he gives, you know, not a not a
newsworthy type answer, not a response that's you know, gonna go viral.
But it's almost as if, Jeff, it's like, what I mean,
that's that's that's the rules, now, like that's how you have this.
You have to be very good in this in this space, and that is
acquiring players in the portal because you're losing players to the portal and making sure
you know, when it comes to that specific I mean, that's it's crazy
to say it, like that's like the most important thing now is making sure
you can keep your team together, if they're good, keep them happy,
and then when you do have spots open up, go out there and get
some of the best players available. I mean, that's just what it is.
And I think again, Pat Kelsey is somebody that you know, we'll
see again. Maybe maybe it doesn't work out here and maybe the portal is
not something that that's great for him. But to me, it just seems
like he understands like that. There's no like because there's a lot of coaches
that can complain about it. And I get while they complain, as much
as I don't really have a lot of sympathy for them, I do get
why they complain because it is different. But you know, when will coach
as ever, John, you think like not do the I gotta worry about
this portal nonsense? Like you can't. I mean you, but there are
people who do that, yet they still utilize it, you know what I
mean, Like, yeah, it's it's what it is. But it's just
to me, it just becomes some lame thing coaches do now is complain about
the Portal and and in il funds. Yeah, I mean it is different,
the job's different, but you can, you know, not to do
it if you don't want to. And I think you've got two guys like
Pat Kelsey and Jeff Bram that are super hungry and want to compete at the
highest level and win at a high level. And I just think it's it's
in their nature to essentially not even worry about, you know, how different
it can be and how problematic it can be. They just know this is
what it is, and I got to navigate it or I'm not gonna I'm
not going to succeed, and that's not an option for me. So we
still got many spots to fill on this Louisville roster, but you know,
so far, I feel like they're in a pretty good spot. And I
know sometimes when there's guys visiting, you want an answer the next day or
you know, maybe the day of. And I just don't think that's don't
think that's realistic. I wouldn't. I would be I'd be shocked if over
the next few days there's not at least one guy that visited recently that makes
a decision. And if I had to guess I'd say it's Corn Johnson,
and I'm only guessing that because that's what everybody else is, you know,
is reporting that louisll looks to be in great shape there now the high school
start star, I should say, Jade and Quainton's he visited on over the
weekend as well. He kind of wrapped up his visit, I think on
on Friday evening ish maybe, And there's really not a whole lot to add
from his visit. But what we'll do on the other side is I'll let
you, at least, you know, share some quotes with you from a
conversation he had with Adam Zagori about his trip to Louisville and what his plans
are next. And I want to revisit something from earlier. You know,
I referenced that tweet John that somebody put out there, and Quaintin's's father shot
it down, you know, like basically saying not true, fake news,
And like if people just stop for maybe three seconds and looked at a profile,
the name, the picture they choose, like you can tell that somebody's
just messing around on the internet, and it's just crazy how many people fall
for that, All right, quick break, we'll come back, keep it
rolling along again. It's Coffee and Company. Feil Beeth Thornton's right here on
Sports Talk seven ninety. So you do have some breaking news as we come
back from break. There. Coran Johnson has committed Louisville. That's the Washington
transfer who I just guessed would be the next to commit. I didn't know
if it'd be today, but he commits now, and you know he is
somebody that is I mean, let me just pull up make sure. Yeah,
he was a PAC twelve six Man of the Year this past year,
so he's played two seasons at Washington. I just mentioned his stats, but
I'll mention him once again given the fact that he did just now commit.
He is from Seattle. Average eleven points, a little over eleven points,
a couple of rebounds, nearly three assists, and you know, in bench
minutes he was a very impactful guy. And I'd say, now, your
backcourt is not completely done, but you've got Edwards Junior Johnson, Rayn Smith,
and you know, I think Hadley's probably a guy more as a as
a forward, but more of like a wing slash forward hybrid. I guess
that's the best way to describe it. I don't want to act like he's
versatile to I mean, he is, but it's not, as you know,
his versatility is not based just off like a crazy skill set. I
think it's more so based off the fact that, like you can put him
in a lot of spots and he'll, you know, he'll he'll get it
done. But yes, another one in the mix there for for Pat Kelsey.
So, uh, what's that give him? Now? Total of let's
see, is that five or see it is five? I think it's six
if you count, and he does count Ali Ali Khalifa. But you know,
the belief is he's gonna red shirt next year. So and I'm still
you know, I'm gonna I may reiterate that every now and then because I
think the plan is for him to red shirt. But I still think like
if if, if he's if he's rehabbed his knee, because he's already had
surgery, but if his rehab goes well, and uh, you know he's
getting himself in better shape, Like I wouldn't be shocked if they just let
him play this year if he if he can, But yeah, that's another
one. Korn Johnson the transfer from Washington has committed a Louisville. So the
Nick Coffee Crystal ball, Yeah, it's yeah. I knew all along.
That's why I said that he'd be the next guy to commit, just because.
But I mean, I wish I could claim I had, you know,
I had the ability to, you know, predict the future. But
I'm being directly honest with you. I only based that off the fact is
that, like anybody who was talking about his and I mean like people who
cover recruiting, anytime there'd be any little update on his options and where he
may end up, everybody said Louisville is in great shape. So I assume
those people were telling them the truth, and you know, I guess they
were. And I don't know if this is true, but apparently there's a
teammate of his. And when I say, I don't know, it's true,
like it's out there, but you know, you can find a lot
of stuff online and there's a good chance none of it's true, depending on
where it's coming from. So he has a teammate, Wesley Yeates, who
red shirted at Washington last year. So he's not played college basketball, but
he is a top former top forty player, was I believe a four star
by every service he is in the portal, and there's some you know,
there's some Twitter stuff out there that he may visit Louisville, like maybe he'll
find follow him to maybe he's gonna follow his his former teammate to Louisville.
So we shall see, all right, We'll get back into the Jade and
Quaintance thing in just a moment, because I don't want to tease and I
don't act like I've got some some update, but I'm pretty sure that the
response from Jaden Quaintance's father to somebody who claims to be, you know,
a Twitter recruiting insider has led to people like finally looking at the profile long
enough to realize that, like it's quite literally somebody just trying to see how
far they could get. Like they're not saying troll, they're not trolling.
They're just sharing information probably from Trilli Donovan's discord and getting stuff right. And
people are like, this guy knows something, Well, it's because he probably
gets it from Trillie Donovan. But anyways, we'll get back to that in
just a moment. Let's go to the phone lines five way two five seven
seventy nine hundred is the number. If you want to give us a call,
and let's go to Mike. Mike, you're on Sports Talk seven ninety.
What's up, hey, man. First of all, on the rankings,
those are absolutely influenced by the school you twose. I'm a Kentucky guy.
I know, folks that commit to Kentucky get a bump. Just like
in football, they usually get downgraded. Uh and it's it's and plus some
of these dudes that are making these rankings, I mean, they're kids who
haven't have no idea how to evaluate talent when they're doing these on these sites
and stuff. So it for me, it's all about the fit for the
program. I mean, the dude that played for North Carolina State last year
at the center, I guarantee he wasn't a top ten guy in the portal?
Was he for North Carolina State? Comes down? Yes. So the
next thing in roster construction of the I'm surprised that some of those little kids
didn't stick around for Louisville because I really think in this day and age,
you're going to have to do more in state recruiting for the consistency of the
roster. And then then you're going to go out and get some other guys
because, uh, you know, I worry about these guys that are transferring
all the time. Yeah, there's no loyalty to a program. Most of
these guys are not going to graduate on time. And number two, you
know, I think Freddy Maggert had a saying, but it was like four
for forty. You get four years to an institution and then you're linked with
them for forty years, and you know, the boosters and stuff take care
of them. Well, there's not many loyal to these dudes that are running
from one school to another all the time. When they're done with their four
years, there'll be nobody there to help them for the next forty There just
won't be And I worry about that part of the thing. They won't they
won't have a degree, and then there'll be nobody there to really that they'll
have a relationship that is truly to help them along the way, because we
all need help along the way. Sure, sure, no doubt. And
I appreciate the call, Mike, and I got to be honest with you,
I think every coach probably agrees with everything he just said as far as
the you know, guys, league, if you leave every year, it
doesn't make you a bad person. If you leave three times in four years,
it doesn't make you a bad person. It just isn't a great look.
But I also at times find myself hesitating to to fault someone who's just
trying to potentially better themselves. And if it's you know, from a financial
standpoint, you know, I don't know if I would do the same thing.
But you got to keep in mind some of these college athletes, you
know, they are aware that their chance to grab money is probably better now
then that'll then it will ever be unless they have like true NBA upside or
whatnot. Now is that is that worth it? Is it worth just you
know, chasing money every year? You know, I can't mean if it's
a lot of money, then hey, you know, I guess it's up
to the person and how much they value said money. But you know,
I think sticking it out and not leaving just because you can is you know,
this is gonna sound corny, but it's it's good for you as a
person. I mean, dealing with you know, going through adversity, that
kind of stuff. I mean, you know, I mean, guys had
great college careers that would have left if they could like kids can now,
and you know, they probably would have. I mean, they never would
have had the ultimate moment that that you know, gave them such a great
college career. So I look, I struggle with it because if they make
a mistake that really impacts their growth and their you know, their career,
right, Like if they just leave because they feel like they're not getting a
fair shake from their coach and they should be getting more minutes a bigger role,
you know, Like if they if they leave and end up finding it
each school they go to, the same problems are there, then they're gonna
have to look in the mirror like that's unfortunate. That would be that would
be these guys kind of doing some that would be a college player really making
decisions that I don't want to say ruin their career, but certainly impacted it
negatively, And that's unfortunate. You don't want that to happen. But I
also have a tough time saying when you're a grown up and you're eighteen years
old that you shouldn't be able to go play whatever you want because coaches can
do whatever they want and they get paid a lot of money too, by
the way, So I don't know the perfect solution. I mean I think
if you if you really had some oversight from the universities themselves, which is
not allowed because that's just you know, the instable as because of how I
say it all the time, there are archaic amateur asm model and no adjustments,
and in doubling down and making it clear that you know, not only
can you not be paid like you can't there's no way you can't make any
money, Like even if you just want to get a job McDonald's, Nope,
can't do it, because then it'll be clear that McDonald's only hired you
because you play for the team. Like it was. It was insane,
so that led Congress to get involved. And now it's just that's why we
are in this exact mess. And it'd still be a mess if there was
more oversight and the schools were involved. But if these guys are employees and
the schools are the ones responsible for paying them, and there's contracts, they
could be fired right you're an employee, and that would make it to where
you wouldn't see guys leave as much because you know what they're thinking about their
livelihood their contract. Right, maybe you sign a no compete, you can
leave, but you know, we will fight it in court. For example,
if I left this radio station today and try to go across the street
and host a show elsewhere, like that's not possible because of a non compete
to sign a contract. So that would make it to where the chaos would
slow down, but you'd still have guys that could leave, and they would,
So there is a there's clearly a way about. There's clearly a way
you could go about this whole thing from the very top. And I just
you know, when I say the top, I usually mean it in double
A. But like, they have no they have no power, they have
no leadership. It's just a joke. It's never been worse than it is
now as far as just like nobody thinking that anybody has to follow any rules
and getting away with whatever they whatever they want. But the leaving just because
you know you can is not really good for anybody. But then again,
maybe you know, there's there's probably some exceptions, but I think more of
than not. If you see somebody that's hit the portal more than twice in
their college career, they may be really talented they may be really productive at
each of their schools and they just want to go have a fresh start elsewhere.
There isn't wrong with that, I guess, but I just think the
multiple time transfer, especially transferring when you get to a school in December,
go through springball, and then leave, like maybe it's because you were humbled.
But some of these guys, man, I just I think their main
priority is money. And I can't say I'm surprised about that, because money's
a motivator for like everybody, right, But I guess more than anything,
it's just there's there's not any really, you know. I guess everybody's different,
but to me, it seems like there's a lot of college athletes that
are rarely ever thinking about what the decisions they make in real time regarding portal
and all that, how that's going to help shape them to be who they
are. I mean that sounds really corny, but I know what Mike meant
there, Like this is just this is just not I mean, it's not
sustainable, right, which means something's got to give. But I don't really
know what. Like, I don't see anybody taking any kind of action to
change anything about the current chaos that we have in college sports. I mean,
who would not the ns double a right? What are they gonna do?
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take our last break. We'll come back on the other side for a longer
than usual last segment of the show. And uh, I think somebody's gonna
gonna out this, you know, self proclaimed recruiting transfer Portal insider. That
to me just seems so obvious. But again we'll get to that, get
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it's Coffee and Company. Feel abut Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety So the
addition of Peyton Siva to the staff may have already paid off here for Patkell's
because there is that Seattle connection with Corn Davis as well as you know Peyton
obviously born and raised in Seattle. I'm sure he still considers it to be
home. Despite making Louisville his home, but maybe that has something to do
cornin Johnson. By the way, I say, Davis, sorry again.
Names not a strength of mine anymore, but makes you wonder if maybe there
is some truth to the visitor that there was teammate that could be visiting.
I've not heard enough to, you know, to say that I truly believe
that's happening. But there was something out there earlier that one of Corn Johnson's
teammates at Washington who regishtered this past year, former four star guard. I
believe he's Wesley Yates. I think it is, so you know, he's
never played but was a highly regarded recruiters a year ago. Red Shuter last
year due to I believe I think it was a foot injury. So we'll
see. I mentioned earlier that I think we'll probably get two more commitments this
week from Louisville. But maybe I was wrong, Maybe I'm underestimating, because
you know, I still think they've got a pretty good chance to get a
few more. But the other name that folks have talked about, well,
there's a lot of names, but the name that is not a transfer it
as a high school recruit that would end up probably me. I think it's
the only high school kid that is available in the twenty twenty four class that
Louisville is pursuing. That is Jaden Quaintance and his father earlier responded to somebody
on Twitter who goes by the name of and I'm saying goes by the name
of because I you know, I'm not really convinced that this person is real.
But his Twitter account is Xavier Let's see here Xavier Ricks, and the
Twitter handle is at Xavier R, but he spells it z y a v
i e R. And his Twitter bio says this Transfer Portal insider Father de
Paul Alum, honorary member of BBN Locations, says Chicago, Illinois. This
account joined Twitter earlier this year, in twenty twenty four, in January,
seven hundred and fifty four followers, only following twenty one people. And first
of all, that to me seems like a very obviously fake name, z
y A v i e R. I mean, I just think, you
know, maybe that's the real name. But like to me, that just
seems like somebody trying to be really creative fake and come up with a fake
name. And maybe it's a real person. I don't know, but there
is a thread here that, uh, let's just put it this way.
If in fact all of this was true, I would believe all of it,
like it would not shock me. But this looks like somebody who just
created a Twitter account to maybe expose this guy, like they don't even have
like maybe maybe truly Donovan just wanting to just wanting to like call this guy
fraud says. In a shocking turn of events, and notorious fraudster known as
Xavier Rix managed to deceive an entire community of avid basketball fans by faking sources
in the transfer portal, resulting in a massive following of over five thousand.
Operating under the guise of a seasoned insider, Xavier Ricks manipulated people and created
an illusion of very of being a very connected insider with a flawless record and
seemingly unbeatable predictions. Unsuspecting fans eagerly followed him, uh and hopes to you
know, have a new insider here, you see, Yeah, there's a
thread here, it says. It was later revealed that Xavier Rix had orchestrated
a simple scheme, and that was publishing Trillie Donovan's work as his own,
Like that would be totally believable, right, I mean, people have a
lot of time on their hands, if that's true, Like if that's but
you're now seeing guys you know who are have worked in the college basketball reporting
world for a while, like if this is what they do, this is
their lane that have been calling out this account for a while, and like
nobody seems to like think it's that you know that the criticism is fair,
But like I mean, anyways, people have a lot of time on their
hands when it comes to the internet. But anyways, we're out of time.
I got to get out of here and head to my kids baseball game.
But the reason I bring that whole thing up is because the uh Jade
and Queen's father you know, responded to some of his tweets basically saying like
this this is fake this is the fake news king. I think he called
them in one of the responses. So we'll see what happens. I wish
I had a better update, but I'd say if he gets to Arkansas,
visit takes place, and then a day or so goes by and he hasn't
committed Arkansas, maybe Louisville will Land Jadan and Quainton's, but we'll see all
right. Every good night, everybody,